evanesces

verb

present tense third-person singular of evanesce
as in disappears
to cease to be visible the kids' rainy-day gloom evanesced the minute they heard that we were going out for ice cream

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  1. disappears
  2. vanishes
  3. fades
  4. melts
Verb
  • The next shift is to build continuity around the product itself, and its ownership… For brands, a product no longer disappears after the first sale.
    — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • First, a Portuguese fishing vessel disappears without a trace.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of disappears
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  • Washington just needs to act before the debt begins to spiral and fiscal space vanishes.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2026
  • As the temperature drops and food vanishes, worker wasps become desperate for calories.
    — Nick Perry, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of vanishes
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  • Community organizations spent decades cultivating wealthy baby boomer donors, and so that connection fades with each generation removed from the original donors.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Its manganese spins continue fluctuating in preferred directions after long-range magnetic order fades.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of fades
Verb
  • Step into this red light foot wrap and watch as your fatigue melts away.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026
  • In laser powder bed fusion (LPBF), a 3D printing method, a laser selectively melts layers of metal powder to form complex internal passages and cavities.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of melts
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“Evanesces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evanesces. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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