vaporize
vay puh rahyz
- v 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 - v turn into gas
- v lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue
- v decrease rapidly and disappear
all my stock assets have vaporized
- At Rice, a student who fretted his full-time offer from Lehman Brothers would vaporize when the Barclays takeover was announced got a call that same day saying his offer would be .
- Unlike a standard nuclear explosion, which would vaporize the pellets and barrel, this one would spray the pellets through space at speeds up to 100 times that of a high-velocity .
- Says Lawrence Korb, a former Reagan Assistant Defense Secretary: "We train them to vaporize, not Mirandize.