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- pronunciation:
- ih
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verb |
| inflections: |
evaporates, evaporating, evaporated |
| definition: |
When something evaporates, it changes from a liquid into a gas. When water evaporates, we can't see it anymore because it has become a gas and gone into the air. Other liquids can evaporate too.
Ryan spilled some orange juice on the floor, but he forgot to clean it up. The next day, almost all the liquid of the orange juice was gone. It had evaporated, but the floor was still sticky.
- similar words:
- dehydrate, mist, steam
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| related words: |
disappear, go, lift, pass, vanish |
| derivations: |
evaporation (n.), evaporator (n.) |
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