Evanescence: alternatives and connections

Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream.

To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to dec…

The sudden disappearance of inflammation.

To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is d…

Act of disappearing; disappearance.

Melting; breaking up; vanishing.

A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state…

Relating to, or occasioned by, earthly objects.

The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.

Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as,…

Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded.

Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal.

Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory.

conduct an inquiry or investigation of; "The district attorney's office investigated reports of possible irregularities"; "inquire int…

A vanishing; disappearance.

To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in practice too minute to be visible.

To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious e…

To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; p…