Associations to the word «Vaporize»

Wiktionary

VAPORIZE, verb. Turn into vapour.

Dictionary definition

VAPORIZE, verb. 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".
VAPORIZE, verb. Turn into gas; "The substance gasified".
VAPORIZE, verb. Lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue; "evaporate milk".
VAPORIZE, verb. Decrease rapidly and disappear; "the money vanished in las Vegas"; "all my stock assets have vaporized".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats