Crossword clues for vaporize
vaporize
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vaporize \Vap"o*rize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vaporized; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaporizing.] [Cf. F. vaporiser.] To convert into vapor, as by the application of heat, whether naturally or artificially.
Vaporizing surface. (Steam Boilers) See Evaporating surface, under Evaporate, v. t.
Vaporize \Vap"o*rize\, v. i. To pass off in vapor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
alt. Turn into vapour. vb. Turn into vapour.
WordNet
v. turn into gas; "The substance gasified" [syn: gasify, vaporise, aerify]
kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting; "in this computer game, space travellers are vaporized by aliens" [syn: zap]
lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue; "evaporate milk" [syn: evaporate, vaporise]
decrease rapidly and disappear; "the money vanished in las Vegas"; "all my stock assets have vaporized" [syn: vanish, fly]
Usage examples of "vaporize".
The explosive burst into a sphere of energy, blowing the aft superstructure of the destroyer into the sky, vaporizing much of the aluminum framing and bulkheads above.
The borer, really just a pocket fusion torch, worked by vaporizing and ionizing a small percentage of the rock.
The epicentre, where the Lady Macbeth had plunged into the drive-fomented particles, was still glowing a nervous blue as brumal waves of static washed through the thinning molecular zephyr of vaporized rock and ice.
The sun-bright glare around the power capacitor began to diffuse outward as the casehardened metal alloy vaporized into superheated plasma.
This vaporizes the ammonia, so we just use the resulting vapor ammonia as the combination fluidizing and reaction vapor.
Snowflakes were falling on top of this bright helical pattern, but then disappearing, as if they were somehow instantly vaporized.
The structures and their vicinities were vaporized, along with Emperor-General Jook the First and the Imperial Body Guard.
Lots of carbon comes up with kimberlite ejecta, but most is vaporized or turns to graphite.
The Stinger vaporized off to the left, close enough for Peery to feel a rush of heat as it came and went.
The methane hydrate deposit, a massive pocket of frozen hydrocarbons, vaporized in a swelling cascade as warm water pumped from the top of the tower raised it to its boiling point.
The scramjet ignited then, liquid hydrogen vaporizing in carefully designed supersonic plume patterns within the hot compressed airflow before combusting in long, lean azure flames.
Barely had they quitted the chamber of the first marsh, where they had met James, than the floor heaved up, and the marsh was vaporized instantly in the sudden upgush of a sea of fire.
He and any accomplice he brought with him were wraithlike, it was almost as if they ran from the banks and vaporized.
The fabric vaporized as the round contacted it, its kinetic energy at the tip the equivalent of an acetylene torch.
Murphy ground his teeth together, anticipating the strike, the pain as it vaporized his legs or spine.