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say it: i-VAP-ur-ayt
evaporate is a verb meaning "lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue". It carries 4 recorded senses.
lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue
“evaporate milk”
cause to change into a vapor
“The chemist evaporated the water”
change into a vapor
“The water evaporated in front of our eyes”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for evaporate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.