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9 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue
verb cause to change into a vapor
verb change into a vapor
originFirst attested in 1545, borrowed from Latin ēvapōrātus, the perfect passive participle of ēvapōrō (“to evaporate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). See also Middle English evaporaten (“to draw off humors or "spirits" as "vapor"”) and evaporen (“to draw off bodily fluid, an excess or toxic matter by converting it into "vapor"; to treat (a part of the body) by…
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- overapt 12
- pareve 11
- repave 11
- overate 10
- overeat 10
- parve 10
- parvo 10
- paver 10
- pervo 10
- preve 10
- prove 10
- vapor 10