vverb.contactkill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shootingSynset:zap
Examples:- in this computer game, space travellers are vaporized by aliens
Derivationally Related Form:zapper
Hypernyms:kill
Inherited Hypernyms:zapkill
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody | Something ---s somebody
vverb.changeturn into gasSynset:aerify gasify vaporise
Derivationally Related Form:vaporizationvaporizablevaporairgasvaporisationgasification
Hypernyms:change integrity
Inherited Hypernyms:gasifychange integritychange
Direct Hyponyms:sublimatesublime
Full Troponyms:sublime
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s | Something ---s something
vverb.changelose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residueSynset:evaporate vaporise
Derivationally Related Form:vaporizationvaporizablevaporisationevaporationvapor
Hypernyms:change integrity
Inherited Hypernyms:evaporatechange integritychange
Direct Hyponyms:transpire
Full Troponyms:transpire
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s | Something ---s something | The water ---s (apply to: vaporize, evaporate) | They --- the water (apply to: vaporize, evaporate)
vverb.changedecrease rapidly and disappearSynset:fly vanish
Examples:- the money vanished in las Vegas
- all my stock assets have vaporized
Hypernyms:decrease diminish fall lessen
Inherited Hypernyms:vanishdecreasechange magnitudechange
Sentence Frame:Something ---s