evaporating

verb

present participle of evaporate
as in vanishing
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 evaporating Wi-Fi’s origins trace back, in part, to a team of Australian radio astronomers trying to detect signals from evaporating black holes. — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2026 A lot of the solar energy goes into evaporating the moisture in the air, so in drier climates, more of the Sun’s energy can go directly into heating the air. — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026 Even worse than high temperatures is high humidity, which prevents sweat from evaporating and cooling the body. — Scott McFetridge, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026 Despite this seemingly critical importance to the automaker at a time when its profit margins are evaporating, Tesla may be contemplating a future without China. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 4 Aug. 2026 Book review sections are evaporating; NPR has been eviscerated; and social media followings no longer seem to be reliably converting into book sales. — Literary Hub, 15 July 2026 This means more of the sun's energy goes into evaporating plant and soil moisture as opposed to causing the temperature to rise. — Trey Fulbright, CBS News, 1 July 2026 Sweat itself does not cool the body down, but the process of it evaporating off of the skin and turning into water vapour essentially transports heat away from the body and into the air. — Victoria Forster, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026 But the district acknowledged in public meetings and in our interviews that all the water leaking and evaporating along the way is wasteful. — Emily Cureton Cook, ProPublica, 26 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporating
  1. vanishing
  2. disappearing
  3. fading
  4. melting
Verb
  • The taboos against assassination, targeting civilians, and embarking on wars of territorial conquest are vanishing.
    — Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
  • For a family member, an obit represents an imprimatur, validation by association, a keepsake that maintains their heritage and, perhaps for a generation, prevents their own legacy from vanishing like a walnut in the batter of eternity.
    — Sam Roberts, Longreads, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of vanishing
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  • The slump has hit Los Angeles especially hard — with more than 50,000 jobs disappearing since 2022.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Cofounder Crissy Fissbane agrees that face‑to‑face connection is resurging but doesn’t believe virtual networking is disappearing.
    — Alison Coleman, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of disappearing
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  • Clip the plant right below the fading flowers and just above where leaves are.
    — Mallory Carra, The Spruce, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The 20th century and its musicians keep fading away — but Rush came back.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of fading
Verb
  • Known as the lifeblood of the Southwest, the Colorado River starts in the Rocky Mountains, fed by melting snowpack, and ends in the Gulf of California in Mexico.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
  • According to these simulations, the sample would start melting at its surfaces around 1,085°C (1,985°F).
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of melting

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