Volatilize

verb

verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make volatile; to cause to evaporate. transitive

    "But the healthy breeze of a neighbouring heath, on which we bounded at pleaſure, volatilized the humours that improper food might have generated."

  2. 2
    make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor wordnet
  3. 3
    To make insubstantial; to dissipate. figuratively, transitive
  4. 4
    To become volatile; to evaporate. intransitive

Synonyms

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aerateaerifyatomizeattenuateblow offcarbonate

Example

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"But the healthy breeze of a neighbouring heath, on which we bounded at pleaſure, volatilized the humours that improper food might have generated."

Etymology

From volatile + -ize.

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