evaporate

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ēvapōrātus, perfect passive participle of ēvapōrō (“evaporate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈvæpəɹeɪt/

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Verb

1. (intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state
2. (transitive) to expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion

   to evaporate apples

3. (transitive) to give vent to; to dissipate
   • Sir H. Wotton

     My lord of Essex evaporated his thoughts in a sonnet.

4. (figuratively) to disappear; to escape or pass off without effect
   • Francis Bacon

     To give moderate liberty for griefs and discontents to evaporate […] is a safe way.

   • 2011 March 2, Chris Whyatt, “Arsenal 5 - 0 Leyton Orient”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     The hosts initially looked like they lacked a spring in their step, but fears of further agony evaporated in the seventh minute with a goal of typical Arsenal quality.

Related terms

• evaporation
• evaporator
• vapour

Translations

to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state

• Arabic: تَبَخَّرَ (tabaḵḵara)
• Bulgarian: изпарявам (bg) (izparjavam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蒸发掉, 消失 (zh) (xiāoshī)

• Czech: vypařit se
• Danish: fordampe (da)
• Dutch: verdampen (nl)
• Finnish: haihtua (fi); höyrystyä (fi)
• French: évaporer (fr)
• German: sieden (de), verdampfen (de)
• Greek: εξατμίζω (el) (exatmízo)
• Hungarian: párolog (hu), elpárolog (hu)
• Ido: vaporeskar (io)
• Indonesian: menguap (id)
• Interlingua: evaporar
• Italian: evaporare (it)
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• Japanese: 蒸発する (ja) (じょうはつする, jōhatsu suru), 揮発する (ja) (きはつする, kihatsu suru), 気化する (ja) (きかする, kika suru)
• Maori: whakaeto
• Polish: parować (pl)
• Portuguese: evaporar (pt)
• Romanian: evapora (ro)
• Russian: испаря́ть (ru) impf (isparjátʹ), испари́ть (ru) pf (isparítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: испаравати

  Roman: isparavati (sh)

• Spanish: evaporar (es)
• Sundanese: ngebul
• Swedish: dunsta (sv)
• Thai: ระเหย (th) (rá-hə̌əi)
• Vietnamese: bốc hơi (vi), bay hơi (vi)

to expel moisture from

• Finnish: kuivata (fi)
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to give vent to

• Finnish: esittää (fi), tuulettaa (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

to disappear

• Finnish: haihtua (fi), häipyä (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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Italian

Verb

evaporate

1. second-person plural present indicative of evaporare
2. second-person plural imperative of evaporare
3. feminine plural of evaporato

Anagrams

• operavate

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) ēvapōrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ēvapōrātus