From , perfect passive participle of ēvapōrō ("evaporate").

• (British, America, Canada) IPA: /ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪt/
• (Australia) IPA: /ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹæɪt/

evaporate (evaporates, present participle evaporating; simple past and past participle evaporated)

1. (ambitransitive) To transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state.

   Coordinate term: sublimate

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

   to evaporate apples

3. (transitive, figuratively) To give vent to; to dissipate.
   • c. 1635 (date written), Henry Wotton, “Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Some Observations by Way of Parallel in the Time of Their Estates of Favour”, in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; […], London: […] Thomas Maxey, for R[ichard] Marriot, G[abriel] Bedel, and T[imothy] Garthwait, published 1651, →OCLC ↗, page 8 ↗:

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

4. (intransitive, figurative) To disappear; to escape or pass off without effect.

   Near-synonym: go up in smoke

   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Seditions and Troubles”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC ↗:

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

• evaporation
• evaporator
• vapour

• French: évaporer (transitive), évaporer (intransitive)
• German: verdampfen, verdunsten, evaporieren
• Italian: evaporare
• Portuguese: evaporar
• Russian: испаря́ть
• Spanish: evaporar (transitive), evaporarse (intransitive)

• German: dörren, ausdörren

• German: verschwinden, verduften