evanesce
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His later “wedge” sculptures, slender prisms of color that can reach heights of 8 feet, seemed to evanesce into transparent nothingness at the top.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2020
And, by the way, I think it would evanesce very completely.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 17, 2019
The ethereal vision of Fonny wreathed in smoke isn’t only striking; it exalts this moment and communicates its evanesce, turning emotion and thought into image.
From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2018
Perhaps Lerner deliberately left this out, deeming it too on-the-nose, but the technical term meaning “to evanesce into vapor,” for a liquid, is “to sublime.”
From Slate • Jul. 8, 2016
Just as he was about to evanesce completely, Frieda, Liz, and Betty burst in from the kitchen.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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