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Verb: vaporise  veypurIz
Usage: Brit (=vaporize)
  1. Cause to change into a vapour
    - evaporate, vaporize
     
  2. Change into a vapour
    - evaporate, vaporize
     
  3. Turn into gas
    - gasify, vaporize, aerify
     
  4. Lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue
    - evaporate, vaporize
     
  5. Kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting
    - zap, vaporize
     
  6. Decrease rapidly and disappear
    - vanish, fly, vaporize

Derived forms: vaporising, vaporises, vaporised

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

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

Encyclopedia: Vaporise