vaporize
verb (used with object)
to cause to change into vapor.
vaporized
Example Sentences
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They worry that launch emissions and vaporized space junk could damage the ozone layer and interfere with the atmosphere’s complex chemistry in other ways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
A thin layer of vaporized rock might also exist, though it would not provide enough cooling on its own.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2026
Other human remains found elsewhere in Herculaneum had iron oxide deposits in the skull, suggesting that the fluids in the skull were vaporized by the heat, leaving only traces of degraded heme proteins.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025
“There’s another element there that I think is the key element, and that is an agreed upon hierarchy, which I think is absolutely vaporized in today’s moment,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024
And the girl with dark hair, the girl from the Fiction Department—she would never be vaporized either.
From "1984" by George Orwell
