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单词 evaporate
释义 evap·o·rate
\ə̇ˈvapəˌrāt, ēˈ-, usu -ād.+V\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English evaporaten, from Latin evaporatus, past participle of evaporare, from e- + vapor steam, vapor — more at vapor
intransitive verb
1.
 a. : to pass off in vapor : escape and be dissipated either as a visible cloud or in particles that are too minute to be visible
 b.
  (1) : to pass away or disappear without leaving a trace : pass off harmlessly
   < the principal secret … evaporated with the advent of the Russian bomb — Atlantic >
   < a book so beguiling that the faintest impulse to criticize evaporates — Dan Wickenden >
   < suddenly the anger left him and his pugnaciousness evaporated — Erle Stanley Gardner >
  (2) : to shrink or diminish sharply or quickly
   < the industry's stocks of scrap evaporated, leaving only a few days' supply in some areas — New Internat'l Year Book >
  (3) : to grow weak : lose in substance, force, or value : decline
   < a thing of infinite beauty in the hands of a master … evaporates into meaningless overrefinement in his imitators — R.A.Hall b.1911 >
  (4) : to take sudden leave : depart without leaving a trace : vanish
   < after his first wife evaporated, he married the girl — Hugh McGovern >
   < a foreigner, for the purpose of evaporating, paid in advance for the hire of a boat — Norman Douglas >
2. obsolete : to issue forth as vapor : become exhaled
3. : to give forth vapor : undergo evaporation — compare sublime
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to convert from a liquid state into vapor : dissipate or draw off in vapor or fumes
 b. : to deposit in the form of a film (as a metal or metallic salt) by sublimation of the material from a nearby solid source
 c. : expel
  < evaporate neutrons from a nucleus >
  < evaporate electrons from a thermionic filament >
2. : to cause to disappear : do away with : dissolve, weaken, dissipate
 < the contradiction between ends and means … is what Marxism and like ideologies pretend to evaporate — David Riesman >
3. : to expel moisture from (as by heat) leaving the solid portions : subject to evaporation
 < evaporate apples >
4. obsolete : to send out as if vapor : give vent to : give off (as smoke or an odor) : emit
Synonyms: see vanish
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