Synonyms of vaporize

vaporize

verb

ˈvā-pə-ˌrīz 

as in to destroy

to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of

a lightning strike vaporized the tree

Synonyms & Similar Words

• destroy
• demolish
• ruin
• shatter
• devastate
• wreck
• smash
• overcome
• damage
• annihilate
• pulverize
• extinguish
• decimate
• waste
• erode
• raze
• kill
• ravage
• nuke
• pull down
• tear down
• cream
• desolate
• rub out
• mar
• total
• crush
• remove
• cripple
• dismantle
• defeat
• disintegrate
• subdue
• injure
• dissolve
• break
• blast
• wrack
• do in
• conquer
• impair
• best
• deteriorate
• spoil
• harm
• obliterate
• lick
• eradicate
• prevail (over)
• win (against)
• mutilate
• trim
• disfigure
• vitiate
• surmount
• exterminate
• triumph (over)
• whip
• assassinate
• scotch
• rout
• dynamite
• master
• blow up
• wear (away)
• liquidate
• expunge
• beat
• disassemble
• sweep (away)
• deface
• wash out
• trounce
• clobber
• wipe out
• thrash
• scour
• zap
• mangle
• extirpate
• undo
• slay
• sack
• slaughter
• overbear
• execute
• fell
• overmatch
• take down
• unmake
• plunder
• blot out
• loot
• cut down
• despoil
• efface
• stamp (out)
• pillage
• drub
• havoc
• wallop
• kill off
• snuff (out)
• trample
• mow (down)
• murder
• gut
• skunk
• vandalize
• take out
• dispatch
• massacre
• dilapidate
• unbuild
• trash
• root (out)
• butcher

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• build
• construct
• create
• raise
• set up
• erect
• produce
• repair
• put up
• fix
• make
• patch
• rear
• form
• invent
• assemble
• protect
• manufacture
• found
• establish
• constitute
• save
• mend
• shape
• fabricate
• organize
• forge
• preserve
• mold
• bring about
• conserve
• frame
• recondition
• revamp
• fashion
• restore
• institute
• rebuild
• doctor
• reconstruct
• father
• renovate
• remodel

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of vaporize

Next up, the company deployed its 100-kilowatt power plant, named Adélie, that is designed to vaporize incoming hydrothermal fluid to spin a turbine and drive an electric generator. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026

Entire families were vaporized by a single two-thousand-pound bomb. — Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026

For the past year, markets have vaporized roughly $2 trillion in software value by asking the wrong question about AI. — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Steven Tian and Stephen Henriques, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026

Fortunes are being minted and vaporized with equal speed right before our very eyes. — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026