Definition of vaporize
vaporized
;vaporizing
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Examples of vaporize in a Sentence
Heat is used to vaporize the liquid.
Pressure causes the chemical to vaporize.
Recent Examples of vaporize from the Web
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Japan Tobacco started selling Ploom Tech, a pen-like device that works by vaporizing liquid that passes through tobacco capsules, last year in a test market as well.
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Encarnacion vaporized a 3-1 slider from Tillman for his 17th homer overall and seventh this month.
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The Socialist Party that held power in the last legislature and its allies were all but vaporized — their 314 seats likely reduced, according to pollsters’ projections, to as few as 20 seats, and possibly no more than 30, in the new assembly.
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Impacts between two planet-sized bodies are colossal, vaporizing several percent of the impact bodies and melting most of the rest.
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The impact that Sarah had simulated made the Earth rotate so rapidly, and vaporized so much rock, that the central body expanded dramatically, with its outer edge of the body was rotating almost as fast as a satellite would in orbit.
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Globalization and the internet have created new networks of belonging and new forms of social trust, by which borders are erased and old attachments vaporized.
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That the Cavs won a championship in 2016 vaporized 52 years' worth of sports angst in the city.
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These collisions are completely destructive, with entire planets vaporizing, melting into molten material, and mixing with each other.
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Origin and Etymology of vaporize
VAPORIZE Defined for English Language Learners
vaporize
playDefinition of vaporize for English Language Learners
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: to change into a vapor or to cause (something) to change into a vapor
VAPORIZE Defined for Kids
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playDefinition of vaporize for Students
vaporized
;vaporizing
: to turn from a liquid or solid into vapor
vaporizer
\-ˌrī-zər\ nounMedical Dictionary
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Medical Definition of vaporize
vaporized
also Britishvaporised
;vaporizing
also Britishvaporising
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