"vaporize" meaning in English

See vaporize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: vaporizes [present, singular, third-person], vaporizing [participle, present], vaporized [participle, past], vaporized [past]
Etymology: From vapor + -ize. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|vapor|ize}} vapor + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} vaporize (third-person singular simple present vaporizes, present participle vaporizing, simple past and past participle vaporized), {{tlb|en|American spelling}} (American spelling)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To turn into vapor. Tags: US, intransitive, transitive Synonyms: vaporise (english: non-Oxford British English), vapourize [British, Commonwealth, English, Oxford] Derived forms: vaporizable, vaporization, vaporizer Related terms: nebulize, pulverize Translations (turn into vapour): avulloj (Albanian), buğlanmaq (Azerbaijani), buxarlanmaq (Azerbaijani), изпарявам (izparjavam) (Bulgarian), vaporitzar (Catalan), 汽化 (qìhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), höyrystää (Finnish), vaporiser (French), აორთქლება (aortkleba) (Georgian), verdampfen (German), אִיֵּד (iyyéd) (Hebrew), párologtat (Hungarian), elpárologtat (Hungarian), vaporigar (Ido), menguap (Indonesian), vaporizzare (Italian), 蒸発させる (jōhatsu saseru) (alt: じょうはつさせる) (Japanese), 揮発させる (kihatsu saseru) (alt: きはつさせる) (Japanese), 気化させる (kika saseru) (alt: きかさせる) (Japanese), parować (Polish), wyparować (Polish), vaporizar (Portuguese), vaporiza (Romanian), испари́ться (isparítʹsja) [reflexive] (Russian), испари́ть (isparítʹ) [transitive] (Russian), испарити [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), ispariti [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), vaporizarse [reflexive] (Spanish), vaporizar [transitive] (Spanish), förånga [transitive] (Swedish), förångas [intransitive] (Swedish), bốc hơi (Vietnamese), tawchu (Welsh)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "turn into vapour",
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "word": "förånga"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "turn into vapour",
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "word": "förångas"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "turn into vapour",
      "word": "bốc hơi"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "turn into vapour",
      "word": "tawchu"
    }
  ],
  "word": "vaporize"
}

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