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vaporize en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *kwapōs Latin vapor Old French vapeurder. Old French vaporbor. Middle English vapour English vapor Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English vaporize From vapor + -ize.

Meanings

  1. (US, ambitransitive) To turn into vapor.
    • 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. 2016 January 14, Jessica Hall, “Nanoengineers build 'microcannons' that fire light-up bullets filled with drugs”, in ExtremeTech:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
vaporizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
vaporizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
vapourize British, Commonwealth, English, Oxford, alternative lexicographic
vaporise alternative lexicographic
vaporized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
vaporized Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

revaporize · vaporization · vaporizer · vaporizable · unvaporized

Relateds

pulverize · nebulize

Translations (33)

az buxarlanmaq (turn into vapour) · pl parować (turn into vapour) · pl wyparować (turn into vapour) · he אִיֵּד (turn into vapour) · es vaporizar (turn into vapour) · ca vaporitzar (turn into vapour) · es vaporizarse (turn into vapour) · ja 蒸発させる (turn into vapour) · pt vaporizar (turn into vapour) · ru испари́ть (turn into vapour) · sq avulloj (turn into vapour) · sh ispariti (turn into vapour) · hu elpárologtat (turn into vapour) · ja 気化させる (turn into vapour) · ka აორთქლება (turn into vapour) · io vaporigar (turn into vapour) · vi bốc hơi (turn into vapour) · bg изпарявам (turn into vapour) · cmn 汽化 (turn into vapour) · de verdampfen (turn into vapour) · az buğlanmaq (turn into vapour) · sv förånga (turn into vapour) · it vaporizzare (turn into vapour) · cy tawchu (turn into vapour) · sh испарити (turn into vapour) · fr vaporiser (turn into vapour) · sv förångas (turn into vapour) · ro vaporiza (turn into vapour) · ja 揮発させる (turn into vapour) · hu párologtat (turn into vapour) · ru испари́ться (turn into vapour) · id menguap (turn into vapour) · fi höyrystää (turn into vapour)