evanesce : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: evanesce	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for evanesce
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
evanesce v disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off" [syn: evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet, pass]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Evanesce \Ev`a*nesce"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Evanesced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Evanescing}. .] [L. evanescere; e out + vanescere to vanish, fr. vanus empty, vain. See {Vain}, and cf. {Evanish}.] To vanish away; to become dissipated and disappear, like vapor. I believe him to have evanesced or evaporated. --De Quincey.