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vaporize

[vey-puh-rahyz] / ˈveɪ pəˌraɪz /
VERB
evaporate
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Inside, a high-powered laser fires bursts of light to flatten and vaporize tiny drops of molten tin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

During a massive impact, temperatures soar, allowing potassium to vaporize and its isotopes to separate.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026

Hot showers or baths can vaporize those chemicals too, and if there’s bacteria in the water, it could splash in your eyes, nose or mouth.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2025

Earlier researchers “didn’t think a lot about what happens to things that vaporize during reentry. Of course they can’t disappear. They’ve got to go somewhere,” Murphy says.

From Scientific American • Oct. 26, 2023

The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams.

From "1984" by George Orwell




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