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adjective

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as in dissolved

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as in condensed

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verb

past tense of evaporate
as in disappeared
to cease to be visible by mid-morning the fog that had enshrouded the island had just evaporated

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Recent Examples of evaporated
Adjective
And then there’s sea salt, made from evaporated seawater and has trace amounts of minerals. — Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2026 Six cans of evaporated milk were rusted enough to draw Stop Sales. — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 May 2026 Bavishi suggested popping a can of coconut milk in the fridge, letting the cream solidify on top, and skimming that off to use as a low-moisture replacement for the evaporated coconut milk. — Beth Kracklauer, Outside, 27 Feb. 2026
Verb
With Bhumjaithai in control of both the internal levers of power and parliament, the prospects for progressive constitutional reform evaporated. — Duncan McCargo, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2026 The Treasury Department intervened midweek to help, but, by Friday, the relief had evaporated. — CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026 By the time the dust settled, some $230 million dedicated to fight global polio had evaporated. — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2026 That helped investors see the sell-off in AI infrastructure stocks that began in roughly late June and continued into July in a new light — specifically, the idea that the steep declines had reflected weakening fundamentals quickly evaporated. — Zev Fima, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2026 The two-run lead evaporated in the bottom of the fifth when a rare Caleb Durbin defensive disaster created another game-tying opportunity. — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 12 Aug. 2026 Francesca Hong’s upset loss in Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary marks the second straight week that a progressive Democrat’s double-digit polling lead evaporated on election night. — Scott Clement, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2026 Two losing bets would have evaporated the remainder of the season’s profits and brought the home run bets into the red. — Josh Shepardson, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026 While Hogan was on an improvement trajectory, those gains have evaporated, to who knows where. — Sheila Weinberg, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporated
  1. dissolved
  2. condensed
  3. disappeared
  4. melted
  5. concentrated
  6. vanished
  7. vaporized
  8. faded
Adjective
  • Filters that remove lead, dissolved solids, microplastics and other harmful contaminants.
    — Joe Holberg, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
  • If the water measures below 250 milligrams of ‘total dissolved solids’ per liter, that’s the green light.
    — Simon Heptinstall, New Atlas, 9 July 2026
Definition of dissolved
Adjective
  • While cake is cooling, whisk together cold water, sweetened condensed milk, and pudding mix in a large bowl until smooth.
    — Erin Merhar, Southern Living, 13 July 2026
  • The gallery presents a condensed history of blue-and-white ceramics globally in dishes, starting in the Middle East with a 9th century Iraqi piece.
    — Stephanie Shih June 17, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026
Definition of condensed
Verb
  • And the Ku Klux Klan, though diminished from its earlier power, had not disappeared.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The suite is named The Endeavour, after the airplane of a former owner’s daughter, aviatrix Elsie Mackay, who attempted to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic a year after Charles Lindbergh and sadly disappeared somewhere along the way.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of disappeared
Adjective
  • Bacalao with melted leeks comes from the Spanish side of Lane’s brain, finished with a South American seaweed salt for umami and grip.
    — David Hochman, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of melted
Adjective
  • While the company's revenue is set to expand, its customer base – which consists largely of the cloud computing giants that run enterprise workloads for businesses – appears to be growing more concentrated.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
  • However, Amodei has warned that the economic benefits of AI could become concentrated among a relatively small group of people.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of concentrated
Verb
  • Joe’s problem is that his own assignment appears to have vanished somewhere inside the machinery of the system.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 28 Aug. 2026
  • In the years since, Afghanistan has practically vanished from American foreign policy discussion.
    — Laurel Miller, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of vanished
Adjective
  • The fiery atmospheric reentries of satellites would be a source of pollution, too, dumping significant amounts of vaporized metal and plastic into our planet’s fragile upper atmosphere.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The hundreds of rats and mice were sick and had to be treated twice a day with vaporized medicine.
    — Kelly Puente, Nashville Tennessean, 25 Nov. 2025
Definition of vaporized
Verb
  • Their content together, appearances, red carpet moments, casual clips of them out in Los Angeles, has kept fans invested in their story past the finale, extending the shelf life of a couple that could otherwise have faded once the season ended.
    — Olivia Shalhoup, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The next major episode of persistent trade imbalances was the rare case in which the imbalances faded away without causing major disruption.
    — MICHAEL PETTIS, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of faded

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“Evaporated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evaporated. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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