[
US
/ˈveɪpɝˌaɪz/
]
VERB
-
kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting
in this computer game, space travellers are vaporized by aliens -
decrease rapidly and disappear
all my stock assets have vaporized
the money vanished in las Vegas -
turn into gas
The substance gasified -
lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue
evaporate milk
How To Use vaporize In A Sentence
- Vaporizers convert the liquid nitrogen to its gaseous state.
- The coffin shattered into a million pieces while the hind legs and the wings of the hippogriff vaporized.
- Together, they are close to finding a way to vaporise the nasties once and for all.
- all my stock assets have vaporized
- The meteors are debris from this comet that enter Earth's atmosphere and vaporize as they fall.
- Do I imagine that by making the sign of the cross I can vaporize her? A MEANS TO EVIL
- Even though relief of symptoms will not shorten the duration of illness, patients can benefit from analgesics, antipyretics, beta-agonist inhalers, antitussives or vaporizers.
- The sample is vaporized in less than 10 billionths of a second.
- Using a cool-mist vaporizer to humidify the air may help soothe irritated breathing passages and relieve coughing.
- The chemist said, "Along the sides of the uniped are microscopic atomic furnaces, each of which vaporizes about a million molecules or so in the surrounding rock and decomposes them into atoms. The Martian Way