单词 | evaporate |
释义 | evap·o·rate intransitive verb 1. a. b. (1) < 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) < the industry's stocks of scrap evaporated, leaving only a few days' supply in some areas — New Internat'l Year Book > (3) < a thing of infinite beauty in the hands of a master … evaporates into meaningless overrefinement in his imitators — R.A.Hall b.1911 > (4) < 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 3. transitive verb 1. a. b. c. < evaporate neutrons from a nucleus > < evaporate electrons from a thermionic filament > 2. < the contradiction between ends and means … is what Marxism and like ideologies pretend to evaporate — David Riesman > 3. < evaporate apples > 4. obsolete Synonyms: see vanish |
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