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# evaporate

verb (evaporate, evaporates, evaporated, evaporating)

«evaporate» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. When a liquid evaporates, it slowly turns into a gas (vapour) and goes into the air, often because it is warmed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evaporate/#m1)
2. When feelings or things evaporate, they disappear. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evaporate/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science, evaporation is part of the water cycle: the Sun warms seas and puddles, the water evaporates into water vapour, rises, cools, and condenses into clouds, then falls as rain. Puddles dry up and washing dries because water evaporates; it happens faster when it is warm, windy, or the water is spread out. Salt is collected by evaporating seawater. In stories «His courage evaporated» means it disappeared.

### Examples

- The puddles evaporated in the sunshine. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evaporate/#x1)
- Water evaporates faster on a hot, windy day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evaporate/#x2)
- When seawater evaporates, salt is left behind. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evaporate/#x3)
- Evaporated water rises and forms clouds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evaporate/#x4)
- Leave the wet clothes outside so the water can evaporate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evaporate/#x5)
- My fear evaporated when I saw my mum. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evaporate/#x6)
- In the experiment, half the water evaporated in a week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evaporate/#x7)

### Note

Regular verb. Noun «evaporation». Evaporating is not boiling: water evaporates at any temperature, but boils at 100 °C at sea level. The opposite change, gas to liquid, is «condense» (condensation). Water vapour is invisible; the white steam you see is tiny drops that have already condensed.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «evaporate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evaporate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«evaporate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/evaporate.html) on Mova free.