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vaporized

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verb

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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Recent Examples of vaporized
Adjective
The eruption column soared more than 55 km, pushing vaporized seawater up into the stratosphere, and the pressure wave from the explosion was detected across the globe. — Yook Ji Hun, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2026 Then the vaporized working fluid enters another heat exchanger (condenser) that is in contact with cold water. — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2026 The fiery atmospheric reentries of satellites would be a source of pollution, too, dumping significant amounts of vaporized metal and plastic into our planet’s fragile upper atmosphere. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026 The hundreds of rats and mice were sick and had to be treated twice a day with vaporized medicine. — Kelly Puente, Nashville Tennessean, 25 Nov. 2025 It is designed to test for vaporized tobacco, marijuana, nicotine products, and e-cigarette devices. — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
The team thinks that this unique double structure is evidence of planets that weren't completely vaporized during this white dwarf's red giant phase. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 29 Oct. 2026 Right before Jocasta vaporized Katerina Wells, Ultron took a 3-D scan of her face, the final biometric key Jocasta needs for her secret end goal. — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2026 Entire families were vaporized by a single two-thousand-pound bomb. — Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026 The thruster fed and vaporized zinc reliably during the firing, according to Muon. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 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 To retire them, the company plans to move many of them into a graveyard orbit, while others will be vaporized by burning up in Earth’s atmosphere during re-entry. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 9 July 2026 The new law also broadens the types of products dispensaries can sell, including gummies, edibles, and vaporized flower. — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 29 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vaporized
Adjective
  • These are wounds in the seafloor where geothermally heated water rich in dissolved metals pours out into the surrounding seawater.
    — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Absorption methods have shown the ability to remove dissolved dyes without transforming them into potentially harmful off-products.
    — Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • In Bulgaria, authorities found and destroyed a Russian Gerbera-2 drone, which was not carrying explosives, in the waters of the country’s northern Black Sea coast, the Defense Ministry said Friday.
    — Derek Gatopoulos, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
  • He was born in 1941 in the village of al-Birwa, which was destroyed by Israeli forces in 1948.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2026
Adjective
  • Bacalao with melted leeks comes from the Spanish side of Lane’s brain, finished with a South American seaweed salt for umami and grip.
    — David Hochman, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The tumult of these raids, which played out daily on TV and social media, ruined lives and hurt local economies.
    — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 9 Nov. 2026
  • Morgenthau left Coburg hoping to become a writer or poet but was forced to pivot to law after hyperinflation ruined his family’s finances.
    — David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2026
Adjective
  • And then there’s sea salt, made from evaporated seawater and has trace amounts of minerals.
    — Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Six cans of evaporated milk were rusted enough to draw Stop Sales.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 May 2026
Verb
  • The apartment building where the children were killed was later demolished and the land was turned into a park and a community garden.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 13 Nov. 2026
  • In March, the DOB issued a stop work order after inspectors found the developers had demolished the existing building on the site without providing adequate shielding to neighboring properties, including 1321 Flatbush Avenue.
    — James Cirrone, FOXNews.com, 12 Nov. 2026
Adjective
  • The challenge is economically extracting its nearly invisible ions from brine.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Seven million are credit invisible, while another 25 million have thin credit files.
    — Artem Lalaiants, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • The post said the front windows of the cafe were shattered and a cash register was stolen.
    — Claire Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 12 Nov. 2026
  • That invincibility myth was shattered Thursday when Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO for 33 years, ally of the President of the United States and cofounder of the world’s most valuable AI company, resigned.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2026

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“Vaporized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vaporized. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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