ablate

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Some space agencies and private companies have begun designing their craft to ablate — break apart and burn up — in the atmosphere at the end of their life, an approach called “design for demise.”

From Salon

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

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