Meanings
present singular third person vaporizes · participle present vaporizing · participle past vaporized · past vaporized · alternative vaporise · alternative British Commonwealth English Oxford vapourize
- USambitransitiveTo turn into vapor.
PFC vaporizes when hit with an ultrasound pulse, producing rapidly expanding gas bubbles that "fire" the nanobullets out of the microcannons at speeds on the order of meters per second -- and the fluorescent microbullets light up to show exactly where they landed in the tissue target.
2016 January 14, Jessica Hall, “Nanoengineers build 'microcannons' that fire light-up bullets filled with drugs”, in ExtremeTech
Synonyms & antonyms
verbkill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting
verblose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Italic*kwapōs
- Latinvapor
- Old Frenchvapeur
- Old Frenchvapor
- Middle Englishvapour
- Englishvapor
- Englishvaporize
Translations
Bulgarian изпарявам
- изпарявам (izparjavam)turn into vapour
Catalan vaporitzar
- vaporitzarturn into vapour
Chinese Mandarin 汽化
- 汽化 (qìhuà)turn into vapour
Finnish höyrystää
- höyrystääturn into vapour
French vaporiser
- vaporiserturn into vapour
German verdampfen
- verdampfenturn into vapour
Hebrew אִיֵּד
- אִיֵּד (iyyéd)turn into vapour
Hungarian párologtat, elpárologtat
- párologtatturn into vapour
- elpárologtatturn into vapour
Indonesian menguap
- menguapturn into vapour
Italian vaporizzare
- vaporizzareturn into vapour
Japanese 蒸発させる, 揮発させる
- 蒸発させる (jōhatsu saseru)turn into vapour
- 揮発させる (kihatsu saseru)turn into vapour
- 気化させる (kika saseru)turn into vapour
Polish parować, wyparować
- parowaćturn into vapour
- wyparowaćturn into vapour
Portuguese vaporizar
- vaporizarturn into vapour
Romanian vaporiza
- vaporizaturn into vapour
Russian испари́ться, испари́ть
- испари́ться (isparítʹsja)turn into vapour
- испари́ть (isparítʹ)turn into vapour
Spanish vaporizarse, vaporizar
- vaporizarseturn into vapour
- vaporizarturn into vapour
Swedish förånga, förångas
- förångaturn into vapour
- förångasturn into vapour
Vietnamese bốc hơi
- bốc hơiturn into vapour
Welsh tawchu
- tawchuturn into vapour
Cite this entry
vaporize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vaporize
“vaporize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vaporize. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vaporize,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vaporize.
Source: vaporize on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.