vaporized 1 of 2

past tense of vaporize
as in destroyed
to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of a lightning strike vaporized the tree

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vaporized

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adjective

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Recent Examples of vaporized
Verb
It is designed to test for vaporized tobacco, marijuana, nicotine products, and e-cigarette devices. Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
This shock vaporized chunks of the industrial bases of nations around the world, including the United States. Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 30 Sep. 2025 The first Starship launch vaporized part of the launch site and threw debris as far as 6 miles. Taylor Kate Brown, ProPublica, 17 Sep. 2025 This vaporized the harmful metals in the red mud, and left behind a purified compound rich in aluminum. New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2025 The idea being that when an atomic bomb lands in your city, you are vaporized instantly. Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025 Tens of thousands were instantly vaporized or killed in the immediate blast wave, with tens of thousands more dying of radiation sickness over the ensuing weeks and months. Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2025 Buildings were knocked flat or seemingly vaporized. Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 7 Aug. 2025 Here, people must have been instantly vaporized all the way down to their bones. Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025 The hydrogen flow keeps vaporized tin from mucking up the system’s optics. IEEE Spectrum, 12 June 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vaporized
Verb
  • Oren Amir, founder of Go Home Builders in Los Angeles, said some of his rebuilding projects in Altadena, where residential areas were destroyed by January’s wildfires, have been delayed by conflicting guidance from the city on rooftop solar panel requirements.
    Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Shipments may not be delivered, or even destroyed, as shipping companies seek information required to adhere to new tariffs.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Heat decreases the amount of dissolved oxygen in water.
    Evan Bush, NBC news, 22 Sep. 2025
  • This was when Earth’s oceans witnessed an oceanic anoxic event, where vast areas became severely depleted of dissolved oxygen.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • No, baseball was not yet ruined.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • There is even Depardieu’s own late son, Guillaume, whose death at age thirty-seven was hastened along by heroin use that had ruined his health, and over whom Ferrara recalls Depardieu shedding copious tears during one of their early meetings.
    Nick Pinkerton, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Gacy's house was demolished, and the property was razed in April 1979.
    Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The existing five buildings that would be demolished to clear the way for the project total 422,600 square feet.
    George Avalos, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Kathya still tears up talking about Katy’s ordeal, the slow road to recovery and how their lives were shattered that evening, a day that had begun with joy, a celebration with her best friends, many of whom grew up on the waterways in Coral Gables and Coconut Grove.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • When a prosperous farming family was murdered in their own home in cold blood for no reason at all by two young male ex-cons, the image of a neat, safe, mid-20th century rural American life was shattered.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • After back-to-back freezes wrecked their crops in New Smyrna Beach, the Bryans found fertile land in Hollywood and established the county’s first orange grove on the land the house stands on, Taylor said.
    Amanda Rosa October 23, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The Ravens host the Chicago Bears in what feels like a must-win for a 1-5 Baltimore squad that’s been wrecked by injuries.
    Andy Scholes, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Schools, hospitals, as well as water and electricity infrastructure have all been devastated during the two-year war from Israel’s extensive military campaign on the Gaza Strip, Amr said.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Her tour of the affected states contrasted with the response taken by her predecessor and mentor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, when Hurricane Otis devastated Mexico’s Pacific Coast in 2023.
    Cristopher Rogel Blanquet, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Not only the literal stages of places like the Gaiety or the Apollo Sauna, but the invisible stage that forms when strangers agree to inhabit the same risk and the same desire.
    Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025
  • An annoying, biker beast blasted out of my bowels onto the page and became the not-so-invisible embodiment of my disease.
    David Soren, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Vaporized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vaporized. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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