Brewer's: Evaporate

(4 syl.). Be off; vanish into thin air.

“Bob and Jonathan, with similar meekness, took their leave and evaporated.” —Dickens: Our Mutual Friend, part i. 6.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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