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1. 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 vaporized by aliens"
   - zap, vaporise [Brit]
    
2. Turn into gas
   "The substance vaporized"
   - gasify, vaporise [Brit], aerify
    
3. Lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue
   "vaporize milk"
   - evaporate, vaporise [Brit]
    
4. Decrease rapidly and disappear
   "all my stock assets have vaporized"
   - vanish, fly, vaporise [Brit]
    
5. Cause to change into a vapour
   "The chemist vaporized the water"
   - evaporate, vaporise [Brit]
    
6. Change into a vapour
   "The water vaporized in front of our eyes"
   - evaporate, vaporise [Brit]

Derived forms: vaporizes, vaporizing, vaporized

See also: vapor [US], vaporizable, vaporization

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

Encyclopedia: Vaporize