Definitions

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  • verb chiefly British Alternative spelling of vaporize.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue
  • verb cause to change into a vapor
  • verb change into a vapor
  • verb turn into gas

Etymologies

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vapor +‎ -ise

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Examples

  • Any nerves or sadness I had slowly began to vaporise as we sat in Nana's tiny kitchen where we had found a box of unopened Roses.

    Irish Blogs 2009

  • Regular posters found it frustrating to find their comment vaporise and it wasn't just me.

    Hot Crescent Rolls… A Bubble? | Universe Today 2009

  • Earlier this year, Israeli scientists created plasma balls by using microwaves to vaporise various materials, but Gerd Fussmann and his colleagues (at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics and the Humboldt University in Berlin) used a different approach that they believe comes closer to the natural phenomenon.

    Boing Boing 2006

  • “We therefore use a short, high-voltage discharge of 5000 volts to vaporise some of the water in a glass tank and create the plasma ball.”

    Boing Boing 2006

  • This would effectively target the cancer cells, and thus allow the RFG to vaporise them alone and leave the rest of the body unharmed.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • All of these are available at MOCA, where the very disinterested staff in the gift shop will unlock the case to let you smell them and then vaporise when you want to ask anything about them, like the price.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Marina Geigert 2007

  • Since the main battery was already active, it entered auto-fire mode to vaporise as many of the objects hurtling towards the Boomerang as possible.

    Archive 2007-05-01 The Wandering Author 2007

  • Since the main battery was already active, it entered auto-fire mode to vaporise as many of the objects hurtling towards the Boomerang as possible.

    First Contact The Wandering Author 2007

  • Then we should all vaporise by Mark Sashine on Thursday, Dec 6, 2007 at 12: 18: 57 PM

    Afghanistan's Women Should be Granted Asylum in the West - All of Them that Want it 2007

  • This would effectively target the cancer cells, and thus allow the RFG to vaporise them alone and leave the rest of the body unharmed.

    The radio wave Wizard John Kanzius 2007

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