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Slowly disappear
Answer for the clue "Slowly disappear ", 8 letters:
evanesce
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Word definitions for evanesce in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To disappear into a mist or dissipate in vapor 2 (context intransitive chemistry English) To transition from the solid state to gaseous state without ever becoming a liquid
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"vanish by degrees, melt into thin air," 1817, a back-formation from evanescence , or else from Latin evanescere "to pass away, vanish" (see evanescent ).
Usage examples of evanesce.
They evanesce out of colours in the near-shapes of foxes and rockrats, the only animals they have seen.
The stone around them might evanesce again, as smokestone sometimes does, after an hour or a thousand years of being rock.
It sucked light and shade, killed two passersby before evanescing and leaving only a remnant of bookness that lingered another day.
Moreya evanescing from his mind, that he may have surmounted the rigors of proscribed rutting seasons.
She slumbered in his arms, warm and faintly evanescing, and again he marveled that he should call this female his own.
Don Tarquinio looked on with a surprised interest that evanesced into elaborate unconsciousness when he was appealed to by Egbert to come and drink up some of the spilt matter.
Of burnt-out stars not even cinders were left, the last scraps of helium ash evanesced like table dust on a windy day.
A deeply contemplative Flinx spent a long time gazing at the empty space the evanesced world-ship had occupied.
Almost immediately, this liquid evanesced into a darkening steam, spawning an intense wave of heat that caused Riane to stumble backward into Othnam's arms.