to vaporize

Examples

• All

• They're using the solar power to superheat and vaporize the toxins.

  Sahara (2005)

• Flowing into the sea, rainwater molecules cycle around, vaporize, and fall from clouds again.

  Academic text (2016)

• But closer into the star inside the snow line, the ice will just vaporize and you will form a planet with no water.

  Dr. Becky

• So it's the energy to vaporize a liquid.

• And then if we heat that back up and vaporize it, cool it back down, now we have even less hexane.

• If there is direct visualization, laser energy can be used to directly vaporize the bone.

  Academic text (1995)

• The whole idea is to get the entire fuel injected and vaporized so it can burn.

  Academic text (2007)

• The explosion initially vaporizes the surrounding rock and produces a high-temperature cavity.

  Academic text (2003)

• Dr. Banzai is using the laser to vaporize a pineal tumor without damaging the quadrigeminal plate.

  The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)

• Moisture around a composite volcano instantly vaporizes, sending a plume of highly pressurized steam to the surface.

  The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)

Synonyms

E

to evaporate

vsto vaporize

45 3.5

Change a liquid like water into gas by heating

covers direct conversion from any state into vapor, not only liquids

G

to gasify

vsto vaporize

• Specialized

1 7.0

To change something into gas by heating it or by a chemical reaction

focuses on conversion by heat or drying rather than chemical reaction

S

to sublimate

vsto vaporize

• Specialized

1 8.7

To change from a solid to a gas without becoming liquid

applies more generally to becoming vapor from any state, not only solids

V

to volatilize

vsto vaporize

• Specialized

1 9.6

To change a liquid or solid into a gas that rises into the air

focuses on direct change into vapor often achieved by heat or drying

A

to aerify

vsto vaporize

• Specialized

9.9

To turn a liquid or solid into gas when heat makes it rise into the air

specifies conversion into vapor, usually by heating or removing water

Antonyms

C

to condense

19 4.2

Turn from a gas into a liquid when cooled

How Fast

to boil

269 1.0

to vaporize

• US

17 5.3

to evaporate

45 3.5

to dry out

11 2.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology