Definition of vaporize
- a tank vaporized by a shell
Heat is used to vaporize the liquid.
Pressure causes the chemical to vaporize.
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annihilate, cream, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, do in, extinguish, nuke, pull down, pulverize, raze, rub out, ruin, shatter, smash, tear down, total, waste, wrack, wreck;
doctor, fix, mend, patch, recondition, repair, revamp;
assemble, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, make, manufacture, mold, produce, shape;
bring about, constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize;
beat, best, clobber, conquer, crush, defeat, drub, lick, master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), rout, scotch, skunk, subdue, surmount, thrash, trim, triumph (over), trounce, wallop, whip, win (against);
blast, blow up, break, cripple, damage, deface, deteriorate, disfigure, disintegrate, dissolve, dynamite, harm, impair, injure, mangle, mar, mutilate, spoil, vitiate;
erode, scour, sweep (away), wash out, wear (away);
dilapidate, disassemble, dismantle, gut, take down, unbuild, undo, unmake;
blot out, efface, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root (out), snuff (out), stamp (out), wipe out;
despoil, havoc, loot, pillage, plunder, ravage, sack, trample, trash, vandalize;
: to change into a vapor or to cause (something) to change into a vapor
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