evaporation
noun
the act or process of evaporating.
evaporations
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pluralof evaporation.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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When it does, it will lead to one of the greatest evaporations of wealth in human history.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2022
In orbital flights, the astronauts burn liquid oxygen as fuel and breathe its evaporations.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they always appeared like mere evaporations of real women.
From Balcony Stories by Grace E. King
Were they watery particles of the air frozen as they floated; or were they evaporations from the snow frozen as they mounted ?
From The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
Oftentimes also, even in the sea are seen evaporations of fire, and such eruptions and breaking forth of springs, that the mouths of rivers are opened.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr
