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Vaporise

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of vaporize. UK, alt-of, nonstandard

    "Overheating of the secondary winding had vaporised the circulating oil in the transformer tank and the vapour had passed into the conservator tank, which was not adequately vented to the atmosphere; increasing internal pressure then lifted the tank cover, allowing vapour to escape."

  2. 2
    lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue wordnet
  3. 3
    turn into gas wordnet
  4. 4
    change into a vapor wordnet
  5. 5
    cause to change into a vapor wordnet

Etymology

From vapor + -ise.

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