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vaporize

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Etymology

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From vapor +‎ -ize.

Verb

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vaporize (third-person singular simple present vaporizes, present participle vaporizing, simple past and past participle vaporized) (American spelling)

  1. (ambitransitive) To turn into vapor.
    • 2016 January 14, Jessica Hall, “Nanoengineers build 'microcannons' that fire light-up bullets filled with drugs”, in ExtremeTech[1]:
      PFC vaporizes when hit with an ultrasound pulse, producing rapidly expanding gas bubbles that "fire" the nanobullets out of the microcannons at speeds on the order of meters per second -- and the fluorescent microbullets light up to show exactly where they landed in the tissue target.

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Verb

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vaporize

  1. inflection of vaporizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative