vaporize

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: va=por=ize

CIDE DICTIONARY

vaporize, v. t. [Cf. F. vaporiser.].

 To convert into vapor, as by the application of heat, whether naturally or artificially.  [1913 Webster]

Vaporizing surface. (Steam Boilers) See Evaporating surface, under Evaporate, v. t.

vaporize, v. i. 

 To pass off in vapor.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

vaporize, v.tr. & intr. (also -ise) convert or be converted into vapour.

Derivative

vaporizable adj. (also vaporable). vaporization n.

THESAURUS

vaporize

aerate, aerify, atomize, blow to pieces, blow up, brain, bring down, bring to ruin, burn to death, carbonate, chlorinate, condemn, confound, consume, cut down, cut to pieces, damn, deal a deathblow, deal destruction, decimate, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, disintegrate, dissolve, distill, drop, emit, engorge, etherify, etherize, evaporate, exhale, fell, fluidize, fractionate, frag, fume, fumigate, gasify, give off, give the quietus, gobble, gobble up, gun down, gut, gut with fire, havoc, hydrogenate, incinerate, jugulate, lapidate, lay in ruins, lay low, lay waste, oxygenate, perfume, pistol, poleax, ravage, reek, riddle, ruin, ruinate, send out, shipwreck, shoot, shoot down, shoot to death, shotgun, silence, smoke, spray, stab to death, steam, stone, stone to death, strike dead, sublimate, sublime, swallow up, throw into disorder, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, upheave, vandalize, volatilize, waste, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck

ROGET THESAURUS

vaporize

Destruction

VB be destroyed, perish, fall to the ground, tumble, topple, go to pieces, fall to pieces, break up, crumble to dust, go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin, go by the board, go all to smash, be all over, be all up, be all with, totter to its fall, destroy, do away with, make away with, nullify, annual, sacrifice, demolish, tear up, overturn, overthrow, overwhelm, upset, subvert, put an end to, seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo, break up, cut up, break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down, suppress, quash, put down, do a job on, cut short, take off, blot out, dispel, dissipate, dissolve, consume, smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver, batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, laniate, nip, tear to rags, tear to tatters, crush to atoms, knock to atoms, ruin, strike out, throw over, knock down over, fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge, lay in ashes, lay in ruins, sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze, level with the dust, level with the ground, waste, atomize, vaporize, deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut, disorganize, dismantle, devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound, exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate, snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out, lay in the dust, trample in the dust, prostrate, tread under foot, crush under foot, trample under foot, lay the ax to the root of, make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of, cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons, fling to the winds, scatter to the winds, throw overboard, strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword, cast to the dogs, eradicate.

Gaseity

VB vaporize, evaporate, evanesce, gasify, emit vapor, diffuse.

Vaporization

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

Disappearance

VB disappear, vanish, dissolve, fade, melt away, pass, go, avaunt, evaporate, vaporize, be gone, leave no trace, leave 'not a rack behind', go off the stage, suffer an eclipse, undergo an eclipse, retire from sight, be lost to view, pass out of sight, lose sight of, efface.