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vaporise

vb. (context chiefly British spelling English) (alternative spelling of vaporize English)

WordNet
vaporise
  1. v. cause to change into a vapor; "The chemist evaporated the water" [syn: evaporate]

  2. change into a vapor; "The water evaporated in front of our eyes" [syn: evaporate]

  3. turn into gas; "The substance gasified" [syn: gasify, vaporize, aerify]

  4. lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue; "evaporate milk" [syn: evaporate, vaporize]

Usage examples of "vaporise".

What little was left of the shattered and vaporised campari would have been in that gigantic waterspout.

Touches the mist-folk, That crowd to his escort, Into translucencies Radiant and ravishing: As with the visible Spirit of Summer Gloriously vaporised, Visioned in gold!

As the Gryphon finally blew apart in a cloud of vaporised tissue and blood, Azhure blinked and the stars faded from her eyes.

Those from A-block and B-block seemed filled with a gleeful excitement incompatible with the presence of a device capable of vaporising Theeo.

Clouds of vaporising breath envelop him as he pants up the slope of Chetwynd Road towards Parliament Hill Fields.

Snowflakes flowing through their coherent magnetic fields sparkled a vivid blue around the forward fuselages, then vaporised to fluorescent purple streamers.