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Synonyms
annihilate, cream, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, do in, extinguish, nuke, pull down, pulverize, raze, rub out, ruin, shatter, smash, tear down, total, waste, wrack, wreck
Antonyms
build, construct, erect, put up, raise, rear, set up
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Meanwhile, Ole Miss’ quick-strike passing game has vaporized between wholesale personnel departures and the institution of Rich Rodriguez’ run-heavy version of the spread offense. — Christopher Smith, al, "Week 2 SEC football betting preview," 7 Sep. 2019 Happiness can vaporize in the thin gap between a third and fourth panel, and the best response to all that is to laugh and keep moving, always ready to duck. — Bruce Handy, The Atlantic, "The Peanuts Characters Aren’t Ordinary Kids," 29 Aug. 2019 The bomb instantly vaporized tens of thousands of people and ultimately killed as many as 135,000. — New York Times, "Frances Crowe, Peace Activist and War Resister, Dies at 100," 28 Aug. 2019 Burning the trees produces ash the new crops need to grow, but a lot of those nutrients vaporize when the plant material burns, making the resulting farmland more or less garbage. — Matt Simon, WIRED, "The Horrifying Science of the Deforestation Fueling Amazon Fires," 23 Aug. 2019 Heavy metals like iron and magnesium are vaporizing and releasing in a stream from the planet. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "This sizzling exoplanet is turning into a football," 1 Aug. 2019 This rare peek inside the guts of the crater showed that the impact would have been powerful enough to send deadly amounts of vaporized rock and gases into the atmosphere, and that the effects would have persisted for years. — Victoria Jaggard, National Geographic, "Why did the dinosaurs go extinct?," 31 July 2019 Meteors are an asteroid or other objects in space that burn and vaporize upon entering the Earth's atmosphere. — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, "Suspected meteorite crashes into rice field in India," 26 July 2019 Many discussions about making the Martian surface more hospitable focus on restoring that atmosphere to its former glory—beefing it up by vaporizing huge amounts of water ice and frozen carbon dioxide, for example. — Mike Wall, Scientific American, "Silica Blankets Could Make Mars Habitable," 15 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'vaporize.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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