ablate

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That causes some of the ice to ablate into gas.

From Washington Post

I was told that I would eventually have in-utero surgery to ablate the veins connecting the twins, which would stop the perfusion.

From Washington Post

Robinson fades, agency ablated; whiteness occupies the forefront.

From New York Times

Zhang and colleagues showed that bulge regions are highly innervated by sympathetic neurons, and that ablating the SNS using a neurotoxin molecule, or blocking the release of noradrenaline from sympathetic neurons, prevented stress-induced greying.

From Nature

Nearby, a team clad in green day-glow shirts worked inside a small hooded enclosure to test a laser to “ablate,” or erase, the film.

From Washington Post