vaporize

Verb

Verb Forms: vaporized, vaporizing, vaporizes

• To convert into vapor or gas; to make disappear.
• 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"
• turn into gas
• lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue
• decrease rapidly and disappear
  • "all my stock assets have vaporized"
• To turn into vapor.

Examples

• His strategy was to VAPORIZE any open triple-word score squares before I could use them.

Synonyms

aerify, evaporate, fly, gasify, vanish, vaporise, zap

Related Words

nebulize, pulverize