What is "vapourize"

Usage examples of "vapourize".

All spaceports had been destroyed, and all the commercial doublekay drive ships in parking orbit had been vapourized while trying to escape or taken over by Pi tan an prize crews.

If an opposing ship had m amazed to approach this close in a war situation they'd have been vapourized by now.

It was followed by an explosion of vapourized solids and an expanding, rapidly diffusing cloud of ionized gas.

Fuel would be pumped into the cav­ity to be vapourized by the laser A megawatt laser could lift a 2-pound (1 kg) craft into orbit.

There, coming in contact with the ice-cold earth, the trillions of tiny moisture particles in the sea air had vapourized, forming the kind of fog that can blot out five counties in a matter of thirty minutes.

The downward vector component maintains surface contact, while vapourized LOX bleeds off kinetic energy as heat.

The redoubt would be vapourized in less than half an hour and they would die, trapped in its entrails.