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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Evaporate

E·vap′o·rate (ē·văp′ō·rāt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evaporated; p. pr. & vb. n. Evaporating.] [L. evaporatus, p. p. of evaporare; e out + vapor steam or vapor. See Vapor.] 1. To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in particles too minute to be visible.

2. To escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of a writer often evaporates in the process of translation.

To give moderate liberty for griefs and discontents to evaporate . . . is a safe way. Bacon.

E·vap′o·rate, v. t. 1. To convert from a liquid or solid state into vapor (usually) by the agency of heat; to dissipate in vapor or fumes.

2. To expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion; to subject to evaporation; as, to evaporate apples.

3. To give vent to; to dissipate. [R.]

My lord of Essex evaporated his thoughts in a sonnet. Sir. H. Wotton.

Evaporating surface (Steam Boilers), that part of the heating surface with which water is in contact.

E·vap′o·rate (·rāt), a. [L. evaporatus, p. p.] Dispersed in vapors. Thomson.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.