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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
vapourise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective converted into a gas or vapor
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Examples
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If looks could kill, that constable would have been vapourised.
Five Go Camping In Hampshire « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Just a thought, but do not the relatives or survivors of those massacred in the allies' blanket bombing of German and Japanese cities and towns, or of those vapourised and irradiated in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also deserve compensation?
Athens backs villagers' fight for German compensation over 1944 SS massacre 2011
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The whole book lovers element seems to have vapourised into thin air, because here I am, on the dating site that my battle-hardened single friends call "Mismatch".
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It vapourised three islands, raised water temperatures to 55,000 degrees, shook islands 200km away and left a crater 2km wide and 73m deep.
The fragile ecology Not a sheep 2008
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It vapourised three islands, raised water temperatures to 55,000 degrees, shook islands 200km away and left a crater 2km wide and 73m deep.
Archive 2008-04-01 Not a sheep 2008
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Of course, new technologies threaten some older things; the CD-Rom more or less wiped out the printed reference book and Wikipedia, in turn, has vapourised the market for disc-based encyclopedias.
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Brian - instead of posting personal abuse, why don't you contemplate the clear intention of extreme Islam to exterminate us - and then ask yourself what you would want done after they've vapourised a couple of western cities?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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The UF6 is first vapourised in autoclaves with steam, then the uranyl fluoride is reacted with hydrogen at 700ºC to yield an HF byproduct for sale and U3O8 powder which is packed into 10-tonne containers for storage.
Uranium enrichment 2009
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Some of the advertising vapourised and most went to other print advertising.
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Brian - instead of posting personal abuse, why don't you contemplate the clear intention of extreme Islam to exterminate us - and then ask yourself what you would want done after they've vapourised a couple of western cities?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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