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vaporize

[vey-puh-rahyz] / ˈveɪ pəˌraɪz /
VERB
evaporate
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During a massive impact, temperatures soar, allowing potassium to vaporize and its isotopes to separate.

From Science Daily

The medley of sounds and images that had woken him up vaporized the way dreams do, and his mind raced back through the rooms he’d slept in over the years until he remembered the McKays.

From Literature

Astronomers have identified powerful winds of vaporized metals inside a vast cloud that blocked the light of a distant star for almost nine months.

From Science Daily

Another, more speculative explanation suggests the iron could be part of a curved arc of plasma created when a rocky planet was vaporized during an earlier expansion of the star.

From Science Daily

In January 2002, Global Crossing filed for bankruptcy, vaporizing tens of billions in market value.

From The Wall Street Journal