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单词 evanesce
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Definition of evanesce in English:

evanesce

verb ɛvəˈnɛsˌiːvəˈnɛsˌɛvəˈnɛs
[no object]literary
  • Pass out of sight, memory, or existence.

    (从眼前、记忆或存在状态中)消失,消散,隐没

    water moves among reeds, evanesces, shines
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was natural, therefore, that Indian loyalty could not be allowed to evanesce.
    • The English once had a continuity myth involving the ancients in the story of the eponymous Trojan, Brutus, but this fantasy had largely evanesced by the time Pope briefly toyed with the idea of reviving it.
    • A cold breeze hit her hip as the heat of his touch evanesced.
    • It was almost eight fifteen and the clouds were full of an orange glow as it slowly evanesced into the blue sky.
    • Like the lovers seated on the grass outside, the music evanesces along the narrowing vista between the trees, and the fountain flows only to ebb.
    • One of the greatest linguists of the day, Noam Chomsky, believes that the complexity of English has many advantages, signposting roots and connections while allowing subtleties that might otherwise evanesce.
    • Angel looked as though she were about to laugh for a moment, then the expression evanesced and was replaced with a more hopeless one.
    • There was also the folk memory of real poverty, which might be rapidly evanescing, but still persisted in most families.
    • Murray begins his survey at 800 B.C., arguing that innovation before then had been more species-wide than individual and had tended largely to evanesce rather than become established, other than in China.
    • In Untitled, 2000, the artist's forehead dissolves into an expansive, pastel checkerboard pattern that in turn evanesces into light.
    • I felt Luca's hand rub in a circular motion on my back and the sobs suddenly evanesced.
    • Do we not now live in our various national enclaves, or seem to, on the cusp of a present evanescing even as it supposedly materializes before our very eyes?
    • His position may seem attractively irenic; but its appeal derives from its vagueness and ambiguity, and evanesces under closer scrutiny.
    Synonyms
    decrease, decline, diminish, dwindle, shrink, contract, taper off, tail off, subside, slacken, droop, sink, ebb, dim, fade, fade away, grow faint, lessen, dissolve, peter out, wind down, fall off, attenuate, be on the way out, abate, fail, recede, slump, flag, atrophy, become weak, weaken, give in, give way, melt away, deteriorate, crumble, wither, disintegrate, degenerate, evaporate, collapse, go downhill, draw to a close, vanish, die out
    declining, on the decline, decreasing, diminishing, dwindling, shrinking, contracting, tapering off, tailing off, subsiding, slackening, drooping, sinking, ebbing, dimming, fading away, growing faint, lessening, dissolving, petering out, winding down, falling off, attenuating, on the way out, abating, failing, receding, slumping, in a slump, in remission, flagging, atrophying, weakening, giving way, melting away, deteriorating, in a state of deterioration, crumbling, withering, disintegrating, degenerating, evaporating, collapsing, drawing to a close, vanishing, dying out, obsolescent, moribund

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Latin evanescere, from e- (variant of ex-) 'out of' + vanus 'empty'.

Rhymes

acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes

Definition of evanesce in US English:

evanesce

verbˌevəˈnesˌɛvəˈnɛs
[no object]literary
  • Pass out of sight, memory, or existence.

    (从眼前、记忆或存在状态中)消失,消散,隐没

    water moves among reeds, evanesces, shines
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I felt Luca's hand rub in a circular motion on my back and the sobs suddenly evanesced.
    • The English once had a continuity myth involving the ancients in the story of the eponymous Trojan, Brutus, but this fantasy had largely evanesced by the time Pope briefly toyed with the idea of reviving it.
    • One of the greatest linguists of the day, Noam Chomsky, believes that the complexity of English has many advantages, signposting roots and connections while allowing subtleties that might otherwise evanesce.
    • Like the lovers seated on the grass outside, the music evanesces along the narrowing vista between the trees, and the fountain flows only to ebb.
    • In Untitled, 2000, the artist's forehead dissolves into an expansive, pastel checkerboard pattern that in turn evanesces into light.
    • Murray begins his survey at 800 B.C., arguing that innovation before then had been more species-wide than individual and had tended largely to evanesce rather than become established, other than in China.
    • It was almost eight fifteen and the clouds were full of an orange glow as it slowly evanesced into the blue sky.
    • There was also the folk memory of real poverty, which might be rapidly evanescing, but still persisted in most families.
    • A cold breeze hit her hip as the heat of his touch evanesced.
    • It was natural, therefore, that Indian loyalty could not be allowed to evanesce.
    • Do we not now live in our various national enclaves, or seem to, on the cusp of a present evanescing even as it supposedly materializes before our very eyes?
    • His position may seem attractively irenic; but its appeal derives from its vagueness and ambiguity, and evanesces under closer scrutiny.
    • Angel looked as though she were about to laugh for a moment, then the expression evanesced and was replaced with a more hopeless one.
    Synonyms
    decrease, decline, diminish, dwindle, shrink, contract, taper off, tail off, subside, slacken, droop, sink, ebb, dim, fade, fade away, grow faint, lessen, dissolve, peter out, wind down, fall off, attenuate, be on the way out, abate, fail, recede, slump, flag, atrophy, become weak, weaken, give in, give way, melt away, deteriorate, crumble, wither, disintegrate, degenerate, evaporate, collapse, go downhill, draw to a close, vanish, die out
    declining, on the decline, decreasing, diminishing, dwindling, shrinking, contracting, tapering off, tailing off, subsiding, slackening, drooping, sinking, ebbing, dimming, fading away, growing faint, lessening, dissolving, petering out, winding down, falling off, attenuating, on the way out, abating, failing, receding, slumping, in a slump, in remission, flagging, atrophying, weakening, giving way, melting away, deteriorating, in a state of deterioration, crumbling, withering, disintegrating, degenerating, evaporating, collapsing, drawing to a close, vanishing, dying out, obsolescent, moribund

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Latin evanescere, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + vanus ‘empty’.

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