evaporate

To transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state.

When an ultrasonic beam is fired at the microcannons, the emulsion evaporates, expanding rapidly into gas. This creates enough force to push the nanobullets out at velocities reaching several metres per second.

McCoy’s team, including 66 researchers across four continents, found the salt and minerals left behind as water on Bennu, or its larger parent asteroid, evaporated. The minerals include sodium phosphates, carbonates, sulfates, chlorides and fluorides, some of which are necessary to the formation of life.

To expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion.

to evaporate apples

To give vent to; to dissipate.

[M]y lord of Eſſex choſe to evaporate his thoughts in a Sonnet (being his common vvay) to be ſung before the Queen, […]

To disappear; to escape or pass off without effect.

Near-synonym: go up in smoke

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

To cause to disappear or to escape or pass off without effect.

Gay people have belabored on this issue far too long and far too hard to allow the efforts of years to be evaporated through this obscene ruling. Our fights will continue, if not in the courts, then in the legislatures.

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