adjective
- converted into vapor; existing in the form of vapor
verb
- past tense and past participle of vaporize; converted from liquid or solid into vapor
- completely destroyed or eliminated
Usage: informal
Examples
- The water vaporized instantly when it hit the hot surface.
- The laser vaporized the metal sample in seconds.
- The vaporized fuel mixed with air in the engine.
- The meteor vaporized upon entering Earth’s atmosphere.
- The explosion vaporized everything within a mile radius.
- Scientists studied the vaporized particles under a microscope.
- The intense heat vaporized the ice crystals.