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evaporation - 8 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | evaporation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drying up; dissolution |
| Synonyms: | disappearance, dissipation, escape, evanescence, fading, melting, vanishing, dehydration, dematerialization, desiccation, dispelling, dispersal, vaporescence, vaporization |
| Antonyms: | dampening, soaking, wetting |
| Main Entry: | contraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drawing in; shortening |
| Synonyms: | abbreviation, abridgment, compression, condensation, confinement, confining, constriction, curtailment, decrease, diminution, evaporation, lessening, narrowing, omission, omitting, recession, reducing, reduction, shrinkage, shrinking, withdrawal, abbreviating, abridging, condensing, curtailing, cutting down, decreasing, deflating, deflation, diminishing, drawing together, dwindling, elision, evaporating, lopping, receding, shrivelling, tensing, tightening, withdrawing |
| Antonyms: | amplification, dilation, enlargement, expansion, extension, increase, spread, stretch, lengthening |
| Main Entry: | disappearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vanishing |
| Synonyms: | departure, desertion, disintegration, dissipation, dissolution, eclipse, escape, evanescence, evaporation, exit, exodus, fading, flight, loss, melting, passing, recession, removal, wane, withdrawal, ceasing to exist, decline and fall, dematerialization, disappearing act, dispersal, ebbing, going, receding, retirement, wearing away |
| Antonyms: | appearance, arrival, coming, entrance |
| Main Entry: | humidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very damp weather |
| Synonyms: | dew, evaporation, heaviness, moisture, steam, stickiness, sultriness, swelter, thickness, wet, clamminess, dampness, dankness, dewiness, fogginess, humectation, humidness, moistness, mugginess, oppressiveness, sogginess, steaminess, sweatiness, vaporization, wetness |
| Antonyms: | dryness, aridity |
| Main Entry: | preservation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | maintenance, protection |
| Synonyms: | canning, care, conservation, curing, defense, evaporation, freezing, guard, guardianship, keeping, refrigeration, safeguard, safekeeping, safety, salvation, saving, security, shield, storage, support, ward, conservancy, perpetuation, pickling, preserval, safeguarding, sustentation, tanning, upholding |
| Antonyms: | destruction, ruin |
| Main Entry: | evanescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dissipation |
| Synonyms: | disappearance, evaporation, vanishing |
| Main Entry: | fermentation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | effervescence |
| Synonyms: | agitation, bubbling, evaporation, turbulence, dissolving, ebullition, foaming, frothing, leavening, seething, souring, volatilization |
| Main Entry: | dissolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death; destruction |
| Synonyms: | adjournment, conclusion, curtains, decay, decease, decomposition, demise, disappearance, dismissal, end, ending, evaporation, extinction, finish, melting, overthrow, passing, quietus, release, resolution, ruin, silence, sleep, solution, suspension, termination, defunction, disbandment, discontinuation, dispersal, liquefaction |
| Antonyms: | beginning, commencement, construction, start |
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