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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of vaporize English)
Usage examples of "vaporizing".
The blast circle then extended to the vinyl acetate monomer bottles and the stardust, the plastic material of the bottles vaporizing, the liquid, then atomizing and vaporizing as well, taking the aerosol stardust with it.
There is nothing like an explosion for vaporizing the underbrush and revealing the underlying topography.
Not Marines this time, not hard men camped out in the heat to do a job, but soft people, women and children, small and smaller, camped out in a city park to watch fireworks, vaporizing and bursting into a hazy pink dew like his friends had done thirteen years before.
The metal hail ripped through the reanimated gibber-thing, vaporizing its skulls, splintering limbs, and shredding its pelt.
Fuel tanks ripped open sending hundred-metre fountains of vaporizing deuterium shooting out.
But it hardly mattered, the blast and shock passing through the speeding torpedoes, vaporizing the one furthest behind, smashing the structural framing of the torpedo in the lead, the latter self-detonating in an explosion that was designed to rip open an enemy submarine hull but just dissipated outward in the waters of the Pacific.
This slow vaporizing rapture enveloped us in an enchanted cloud, and we wandered around for a while with our feet scarcely touching the ground.