vaporize

English

Etymology tree

English vapor

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ize

English vaporize

From vapor + -ize.

vaporize (third-person singular simple present vaporizes, present participle vaporizing, simple past and past participle vaporized) (American spelling)

(ambitransitive) To turn into vapor.
- 2016 January 14, Jessica Hall, “Nanoengineers build 'microcannons' that fire light-up bullets filled with drugs”, in ExtremeTech‎^[1]:
  PFC vaporizes when hit with an ultrasound pulse, producing rapidly expanding gas bubbles that "fire" the nanobullets out of the microcannons at speeds on the order of meters per second -- and the fluorescent microbullets light up to show exactly where they landed in the tissue target.

turn into vapour

Albanian: avulloj (sq)
Azerbaijani: buğlanmaq (az), buxarlanmaq (az)
Bulgarian: изпарявам (bg) (izparjavam)
Catalan: vaporitzar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 汽化 (zh) (qìhuà)
Finnish: höyrystää (fi)
French: vaporiser (fr)
Georgian: აორთქლება (aortkleba)
German: verdampfen (de)
Hebrew: אִיֵּד (he) (iyyéd)
Hungarian: párologtat (hu), elpárologtat (hu)
Ido: vaporigar (io)
Indonesian: menguap (id)
Italian: vaporizzare (it)
Japanese: 蒸発させる (ja) (じょうはつさせる, jōhatsu saseru), 揮発させる (ja) (きはつさせる, kihatsu saseru), 気化させる (ja) (きかさせる, kika saseru)
Polish: parować (pl), wyparować (pl)
Portuguese: vaporizar (pt)
Romanian: vaporiza (ro)
Russian: (reflexive) испари́ться (ru) (isparítʹsja), (transitive) испари́ть (ru) (isparítʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: испарити

Latin: ispariti (sh)
Spanish: (reflexive) vaporizarse (es), (transitive) vaporizar (es)
Swedish: förånga (sv) (transitive), förångas (sv) (intransitive)
Vietnamese: bốc hơi (vi)
Welsh: tawchu

vaporize