EVANESCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they evanesce ... he / she / it evanesces

Past simple: evanesced

Past participle: evanesced

-ing form: evanescing

Meaning:

Disappear gradually

Example:

The pain eventually passed off

Synonyms:

blow over; evanesce; fade; fleet; pass; pass off

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "evanesce" is one way to...):

disappear; go away; vanish (get lost, as without warning or explanation)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

evanescence (the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight)

evanescent (tending to vanish like vapor)