volatilize

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verb

To make volatile; to cause to evaporate.

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Meanings

verbvolatilize (third-person singular simple present volatilizes, present participle volatilizing, simple past and past participle volatilized)

present singular third person volatilizes · participle present volatilizing · participle past volatilized · past volatilized

  1. transitiveTo make volatile; to cause to evaporate.

    But the healthy breeze of a neighbouring heath, on which we bounded at pleaſure, volatilized the humours that improper food might have generated.

    1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter VII, page 145
  2. figurativelytransitiveTo make insubstantial; to dissipate.
  3. intransitiveTo become volatile; to evaporate.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbmake volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor

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Origin

From volatile + -ize.

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APA

volatilize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/volatilize

MLA

“volatilize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/volatilize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “volatilize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/volatilize.

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