volatilize

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: vo=lat=i=lize

CIDE DICTIONARY

volatilize, v. t. [Cf. F. volatiliser.].

 To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor.  [1913 Webster]
"The water . . . dissolving the oil, and volatilizing it by the action."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

volatilize, v. (also -ise)
1 tr. cause to evaporate.
2 intr. evaporate.

Derivative

volatilizable adj. volatilization n.

THESAURUS

volatilize

aerate, aerify, atomize, attenuate, blow off, carbonate, cast forth, chlorinate, clear away, dilute, dispel, dissipate, dissolve, distill, drive away, emit, etherify, etherize, evaporate, exhale, fluidize, fractionate, fume, fumigate, gasify, give off, hydrogenate, oxygenate, perfume, reek, send out, smoke, spray, steam, sublimate, sublime, thin, thin out, vaporize

ROGET THESAURUS

volatilize

Vaporization

VB render gaseous, vaporize, volatilize, distill, sublime, evaporate, exhale, smoke, transpire, emit vapor, fume, reek, steam, fumigate, cohobate, finestill, bubble, sparge, effervesce, boil.