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To dissipate and disappear like vapor.

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Usage examples (13)
  • He just barely heard a faint clank and scrape, and when he glanced down, there was the silver dinner-tray, with a chill moist handprint rapidly evanescing from its lid.
  • It is dangerous to sculpture these evanescing images of thought.
  • Those sciences reveal types of life evanescing into each other by inexpressible refinements of change.
  • Nothing else has that definite indefiniteness, that melting permanence, that evanescing changelessness.
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