vaporize Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting
    zap.
    • in this computer game, space travellers are vaporized by aliens
  2. verb turn into gas
    aerify; gasify; vaporise.
    • The substance gasified
  3. verb lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue
    vaporise; evaporate.
    • evaporate milk
  4. verb decrease rapidly and disappear
    fly; vanish.
    • the money vanished in las Vegas
    • all my stock assets have vaporized

WordNet

Vap"o*rize transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. vaporiser.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Vaporized ; present participle & verbal noun Vaporizing
Definitions
  1. To convert into vapor, as by the application of heat, whether naturally or artificially.
Vap"o*rize intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To pass off in vapor.

Webster 1913