| 单词 | vaporize |
| 释义 | vaporize (once / 12601 pages) v To vaporize is to evaporate and turn into gas. If you're watching a sci-fi movie, it probably means to vanish quickly or be utterly obliterated by a phaser gun. As the structure of the word suggests, vaporize means "turn into vapor." Sometimes this means just turning into gas, like when boiling water turns into steam and rises into the atmosphere. Other times, something more concentrated is left behind, like when maple sap is boiled down into syrup. And in the greenhouse (or grocery store produce section), to vaporize is also to spray your green things with a light coating of mist. WORD FAMILYvaporize: vaporizable, vaporization, vaporized, vaporizer, vaporizes, vaporizing+/vapor: vaporing, vaporise, vaporish, vaporize, vaporous, vapors/vaporing: vaporings/vaporise: vaporisation, vaporised, vaporiser, vaporising/vaporish: vaporishly/vaporizer: vaporizers/vaporous: vaporously, vaporousness USAGE EXAMPLESWhen his plumbing-company job vaporized shortly after the President’s visit, he was besieged with offers. The New Yorker(Dec 10, 2016) Those hand-held devices that vaporize liquid nicotine could soon come to Price’s attention. Washington Times(Nov 29, 2016) This would, among other things, vaporize the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Washington Post(Nov 28, 2016) 1v turn into gas Syn|Hypo|Hyper aerify, gasify, vaporise sublimate, sublime change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting change integrity change in physical make-up 2v lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue Syn|Hypo|Hyper evaporate, vaporise transpire exude water vapor change integrity change in physical make-up 3v decrease rapidly and disappear all my stock assets have vaporized Syn|Hyper fly, vanish fell, fly, vanish pass away rapidly decrease, diminish, fall, lessen decrease in size, extent, or range 4v 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 Syn|Hyper zap kill cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly |
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