vaporize

vaporize is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To convert into vapor, as by the application of heat, whether naturally or artificially. Face value is 22 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 22 · Words With Friends 24 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To convert into vapor, as by the application of heat, whether naturally or artificially.
2. intransitive verb. To pass off in vapor.
3. verb. decrease rapidly and disappear

   "the money vanished in las Vegas"

   "all my stock assets have vaporized"

   Synonyms: fly, vanish

4. verb. lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue

   "evaporate milk"

   Synonyms: evaporate, vaporise

5. verb. turn into gas

   "The substance gasified"

   Synonyms: aerify, gasify, vaporise

6. 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"

   Synonyms: zap

Synonyms

fly, vanish, evaporate, vaporise, aerify, gasify, zap

Common word forms

vaporized, vaporizer, vaporizes, vaporizing

Words from these letters

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