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1. Cause to change into a vapour
   "The chemist vaporised the water"
   - evaporate, vaporize
    
2. Change into a vapour
   "The water vaporised in front of our eyes"
   - evaporate, vaporize
    
3. Turn into gas
   "The substance vaporised"
   - gasify, vaporize, aerify
    
4. Lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue
   "vaporise milk"
   - evaporate, vaporize
    
5. Kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting
   "in this computer game, space travellers are vaporised by aliens"
   - zap, vaporize
    
6. Decrease rapidly and disappear
   "the money vaporised in las Vegas"
   - vanish, fly, vaporize

Derived forms: vaporised, vaporises, vaporising

See also: vapor [US], vaporisation [Brit]

Type of: alter, change, change integrity, decrease, diminish, fall, kill, lessen, modify

Encyclopedia: Vaporise