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EVANESCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does evanesce mean?
• EVANESCE (verb)
The verb EVANESCE has 1 sense:
1. disappear gradually
Familiarity information: EVANESCE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they evanesce ... he / she / it evanesces
Past simple: evanesced
Past participle: evanesced
-ing form: evanescing
... he / she / it evanesces Past simple: evanesced
Past participle: evanesced
-ing form: evanescing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Disappear gradually
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
blow over; evanesce; fade; fleet; pass; pass off
Context example:
The pain eventually passed off
Hypernyms (to "evanesce" is one way to...):
disappear; go away; vanish (get lost, as without warning or explanation)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Derivation:
evanescence (the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight)
evanescent (tending to vanish like vapor)
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