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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 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 bright light attracts massive swarms of flying insects, chased by birds, which unwittingly get instantly vaporized mid-air by the invisible, high-temperature beams. Indrabati Lahiri, Forbes.com, 26 July 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 readthrough is a bit less direct for gasoline used in cars, however, given that gasoline comes from the light distillate fraction, when crude is heated, vaporized and separated. Zev Fima,kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 5 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 While the majority of the rock vaporized, the remaining fragments rained down harmlessly into the waters of Cape Cod Bay. Shawn Laatsch, The Conversation, 15 June 2026 Four good friends and fellow volunteers vaporized in a fireball, their debris raining down to the sea, their bodies never seen again. Rick Jervis, USA Today, 18 May 2026 There is perhaps no other city on earth that has been vaporized, invaded, flattened, overrun (by criminals, aliens, drugs, frogs, chemicals) more on film than Los Angeles. Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026 Matter vaporized, mixed and cooled extremely quickly, rearranging into new forms. Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 11 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vaporized
Adjective
  • Filters that remove lead, dissolved solids, microplastics and other harmful contaminants.
    Joe Holberg, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
  • If the water measures below 250 milligrams of ‘total dissolved solids’ per liter, that’s the green light.
    Simon Heptinstall, New Atlas, 9 July 2026
Verb
  • Some 600 drones were detected headed toward the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with a third destroyed over the Moscow region itself.
    ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • An airstrike destroyed a house in Ansar town, killing seven people and wounding three others on Saturday morning, NNA said.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Six cans of evaporated milk were rusted enough to draw Stop Sales.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 May 2026
  • Bavishi suggested popping a can of coconut milk in the fridge, letting the cream solidify on top, and skimming that off to use as a low-moisture replacement for the evaporated coconut milk.
    Beth Kracklauer, Outside, 27 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Brentford will be hoping promising midfielder Antoni Milambo can contribute after his debut season was ruined by an ACL injury in October.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Tuesday’s second callback inspection, third inspection overall, got ruined by two dead roaches under a dry storage shelf and four live roaches in dry storage.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • In response, some AI firms like Claude-maker Anthropic have recently added invisible 'watermarks' into their products, giving people a reliable way to spot their products' outputs for the first time.
    Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The Buñuelian skeptic in me also shirks at Fried’s approving references to Diderot’s petite église invisible, the small hidden church whose members—painters, critics, curators, patrons—are the vision-gifted serious pursuers of art history.
    Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 14 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • In Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, a Russian glide bomb demolished six floors of a 10-story apartment block, killing one person and wounding 16 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
    ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The facade will join a growing list of other historic sites that have been steadily demolished around Charlotte over the decades.
    Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Twin earthquakes in June shattered Venezuela’s coastal state of La Guaira, transforming a Caribbean playground into a landscape of ruin and grief.
    Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The east Charlotte shooting left church and school bus windows shattered and children crying.
    Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 14 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Resilience wrecked, but Blue Ghost aced its touchdown, becoming the first private spacecraft to do so.
    Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
  • This group of men did stuff that hurt others to often terrible degrees but also wrecked themselves and their careers.
    Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2026

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“Vaporized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vaporized. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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