evaporate
When water or another liquid evaporates, it changes into a gas. Heat can also evaporate a liquid.
To change from a liquid into a gas, or to cause a liquid to change into a gas.
If a feeling, hope, advantage, or amount of money evaporates, it disappears or is lost.
To disappear, be lost, or stop existing, especially gradually or unexpectedly.
To evaporate a mixture is to remove its liquid by heating it or leaving it open.
To remove liquid from a substance or mixture by turning it into vapor, often by heating it.
- Base: evaporate
- 3rd Person Singular: evaporates
- Present Participle: evaporating
- Past: evaporated
evaporate into thin air
1disappear without a trace
To suddenly or completely disappear.
- The promised funding seemed to evaporate into thin air after the election.
- By the time the police arrived, the suspect had evaporated into thin air.
- The files did not evaporate into thin air; someone must have deleted them.
- My keys seemed to evaporate into thin air.
- The money evaporated into thin air.
evaporated milk
1concentrated canned milk
Thick canned milk with part of the water removed.
- The recipe calls for one can of evaporated milk.
- Evaporated milk gives the soup a creamy texture without making it sweet.
- She used evaporated milk because fresh milk was hard to store.
- I put evaporated milk in my coffee.
- Evaporated milk is usually not very sweet.
evaporative cooling
1cooling through evaporation
A way of cooling something when water or another liquid evaporates and carries heat away.
- Sweating uses evaporative cooling to lower body temperature.
- Evaporative cooling works best in hot, dry climates.
- The building uses evaporative cooling instead of standard air conditioning.
- Sweat cools your skin by evaporative cooling.