MEANING
To fade or disappear gradually, as though dissolving into air.
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The last blue of dusk evanesced from the windows.
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Word forms
- Base
- evanesce
- Past tense
- evanesced
- Past participle
- evanesced
- Present participle
- evanescing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- evanesce
- Present continuous
- am/is/are evanescing
- Present perfect
- have/has evanesced
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been evanescing
- Past
- evanesced
- Past continuous
- was/were evanescing
- Past perfect
- had evanesced
- Past perfect continuous
- had been evanescing
- Future
- will evanesce
- Future continuous
- will be evanescing
- Future perfect
- will have evanesced
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been evanescing
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