Vaporize
verb
verb ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To turn into vapor. US, ambitransitive
"PFC vaporizes when hit with an ultrasound pulse, producing rapidly expanding gas bubbles that "fire" the nanobullets out of the microcannons at speeds on the order of meters per second -- and the fluorescent microbullets light up to show exactly where they landed in the tissue target."
- 2 decrease rapidly and disappear wordnet
- 3 lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue wordnet
- 4 turn into gas wordnet
- 5 kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting wordnet
Example
More examples"In space, your body would swell without a pressure suit because liquid in your soft tissues and, to a lesser extent, water in your circulatory system would begin to vaporize. Contrary to some existing myths, you would not explode—your skin is too strong for that to happen."
Etymology
From vapor + -ize.
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