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