vaporize
pronunciation
How to pronounce vaporize in British English:
UK [ˈveɪpəraɪz]
How to pronounce vaporize in American English:
US [ˈvepəˌraɪz]
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- Verb:
- turn into gas
- kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting
- lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue
- decrease rapidly and disappear
Word Origin
- vaporize (v.)
- 1630s, "to smoke" (tobacco), from vapor + -ize. Later "convert into vapor, cause to become vapor" (1803), and "spray with fine mist" (1900). Intransitive sense "become vaporous" is from 1828. Related: Vaporized; vaporizing. An earlier verb was simply vapor (c. 1400, transitive and intransitive), from Latin vaporare.
Example
- 1. Heat from the sun could then vaporize the water each lunar noon .
- 2. Chlorine-37 likes to bond with hydrogen and vaporize out as hydrogen chloride .
- 3. The pipe must be warned in order to vaporize the solid opium .
- 4. As the cloud collapses , it heats up and compresses in the center . It heats enough for the dust to vaporize .
- 5. Basically the main idea is to let the alcohol inside the bottle vaporize , and then turn it on , so you can take the picture .