1. Change from liquid to gas, typically through heating
   "The water vaporized in front of our eyes";
   - evaporate, vaporise [Brit]
    
2. Turn into gas
   "The substance vaporized";
   - gasify, vaporise [Brit], aerify
    
3. Lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue
   "vaporize milk";
   - evaporate, vaporise [Brit]
    
4. Decrease rapidly and disappear
   "all my stock assets have vaporized";
   - vanish, fly, vaporise [Brit]
    
5. 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";
   - zap [informal], vaporise [Brit]

Derived forms: vaporizes, vaporizing, vaporized

Type of: alter, change, change integrity, come down, decrease, dent, diminish, fall, go down, kill, lessen, modify, sink

Encyclopedia: Vaporize