For things that have had contents with volatile oil like thinners they should be left for a few days to completely evaporate it before being disposed of as non-flammable waste.
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Evaporate
//ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹæɪt//
Synonyms for "evaporate" (159 found)
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Verb(4 words)
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67 translations across 32 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَبَخَّرَ verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Bulgarian
1 entries- изпарявам verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Catalan
1 entries- evaporar verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 揮發 /挥发 verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- 蒸發掉 /蒸发掉 verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Czech
1 entries- vypařit se verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Danish
1 entries- fordampe verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Dutch
1 entries- verdampen verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Finnish
4 entries- esittää verb (to give vent to)
- haihtua verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- haihtua verb (to disappear)
- häipyä verb (to disappear)
French
2 entries- s'évaporer verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- évaporer verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
German
4 entries- ausdörren verb (to expel moisture from)
- dörren verb (to expel moisture from)
- evaporieren verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- verdampfen verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Greek
1 entries- εξατμίζω verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Hungarian
2 entries- elpárolog verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- párolog verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Ido
1 entries- vaporeskar verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Indonesian
1 entries- menguap verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Interlingua
1 entries- evaporar verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Italian
1 entries- evaporare verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Japanese
3 entries- 揮発する verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- 気化する verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- 蒸発する verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Māori
1 entries- whakaeto verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- fordampe verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- fordunste verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اوچمق verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Polish
3 entries- parować verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- wyparować verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- wyparowywać verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Portuguese
1 entries- evaporar verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Romanian
3 entries- evapora verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- se vaporiza verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- seca verb (to expel moisture from)
Russian
4 entries- испари́ть verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- испари́ться verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- испаря́ть verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- испаря́ться verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- isparavati verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- испаравати verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Spanish
2 entries- evaporar verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- evaporarse verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Sundanese
1 entries- ngebul verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Swedish
4 entries- avdunsta verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- avdunsta verb (to expel moisture from)
- dunsta verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- dunsta verb (to disappear)
Thai
1 entries- ระเหย verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ви́парувати verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- ви́паруватися verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- випаро́вувати verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- випаро́вуватися verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Vietnamese
2 entries- bay hơi verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
- bốc hơi verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Welsh
1 entries- tawchu verb ((transitive or intransitive) to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
These solvents, due to their volatility, evaporate into the atmosphere when used.
Source: tatoeba (329176)
Water will evaporate after it is boiled.
Source: tatoeba (680851)
If the comet nucleus is pulled into an orbit which carries it close to the Sun, the solar heat will cause the outer layers of the icy nucleus to evaporate.
Source: tatoeba (3957585)
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