vaporize
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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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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 2019 Heat from the panel would vaporize seawater in the top channel, cross through the porous membrane, and then finally condense as fresh water in the third channel. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "Solar Panels Could Make Saltwater Safe for Farming," 11 July 2019 The Death Star is a near-perfect sphere, a hundred miles across, with a planet-vaporizing laser. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, "The math of why it’s so hard to build a spherical Death Star in space," 18 Sep. 2018 This would have vaporized any water on the Earth’s surface and killed any life that may have existed there. — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, "Lunar Mysteries That Science Still Needs to Solve," 16 July 2019 Our simple recipe for making the moon’s chemistry is as follows: vaporize two colliding planetary bodies, mix well and bake at 4,000 degrees Celsius (more than 7,000 degrees F) in a convection oven for 10 to 100 years. — Simon J. Lock, Scientific American, "When Earth and the Moon Were One," 2 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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