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evanesce

[ev-uh-nes, ev-uh-nes] / ˌɛv əˈnɛs, ˈɛv əˌnɛs /
VERB
dissipate
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Its outlined forms of three rabbits and a deer either take shape out of Hua’s smoky ink washes or evanesce into them, a depiction of ecological destruction that seems contemporary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

These feature watery pools of color that seem to evanesce into nothing, topped by the hard geometries of Gray’s rug patterns, which are rendered in hand-stitched embroidery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2021

In the handful of works by Vuillard, both the abstract patterning and the absence of modeling cause the borders between the picture’s separate elements to evanesce.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2019

And, by the way, I think it would evanesce very completely.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 17, 2019

Just as he was about to evanesce completely, Frieda, Liz, and Betty burst in from the kitchen.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

On Thursday, it evanesced in a pinnacle of silence, which Runnicles sustained at some length before allowing in the applause.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2016

Young people flocked to Nader, and hip musicians played his rallies: The lineup in New York included Eddie Vedder, Patti Smith, and Ani DiFranco, whose ’90s cool had not yet evanesced.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2016

A seagoing Navy man who later spent beatnik years in New York that evanesced into hippiedom in California, Mr. Stone led an adventuresome early life that was crucial in the development of his work.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2015

As bioluminescence roiled around my ankles, I waded toward a white sand shore fringed with palms to where several thatched villas set in foliage awaited, and the travails of the long odyssey effortlessly evanesced.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2012

Finally, she evanesced the ghosts, starting with Azareen’s grandmother, infusing the dream with their sighs of release.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

But in the go-go '90s, the period between appearing on TV and getting a fat book deal is evanescing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even Jack Kemp got left in the countinghouse to pine for evanescing gold.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just before sunset, from beneath a belt of clouds evanescing over the summit, an inconceivably tender, brilliant glow of rosy violet mantled downward, filling all the valley.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various

The chico, corresponding in a Spanish hotel to a piccolo in Germany or a page in England, or our own now evanescing bell-boy, was to get a peseta for bringing me the letter.

From Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells

These sciences reveal types of life evanescing into each other by inexpressible refinements of change.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones


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