evaporate
verb (used without object)
to change from a liquid or solid state into vapor; pass off in vapor.
was evaporating
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past progressiveof evaporate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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For better or worse, an era was evaporating.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2022
A report from the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Lab similarly found that QAnon rhetoric was "evaporating from the mainstream internet."
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2021
Still, lawyers for at least two of the 40 remaining prisoners at Guantánamo told federal judges this week that whatever wartime legal authority the government had to detain their clients was evaporating.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2021
By the 1970s, the evidence for van de Kamp’s putative planets was evaporating under further scrutiny, in the end being attributed to various errors and oversights that contaminated his observations.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 14, 2018
All around him, men were redefining themselves for the new world, and a vast pool of knowledge and tradition was evaporating.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
