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vaporize

verb as in evaporate

Strong match

verb as in destroy; kill

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That last promise vaporized early on, after Volodymyr Zelensky stormed out of the White House following an Oval Office ambush in February.

As the ice keeps vaporizing, it gradually slides downhill, carving a long, deep trench with ridges on either side.

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Airbus and Boeing, the two biggest aircraft manufacturers, have acknowledged that malfunctions can lead to oil and hydraulic fluid leaking into the engines or power units and vaporizing at extreme heat.

After Sinner won Wimbledon, it wasn’t hard to find murmuring that the 24-year-old Italian might be making a separation, that his sudden mastery of the grass vaporized Alcaraz’s last edge.

“There’s a certain undertone of ‘good riddance’ when kooks like these are vaporized by the earth’s latest ill-mannered guests.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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