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# vaporise

«vaporise» in Mova's school dictionary: **To turn a liquid or a solid into a gas or vapour, usually…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (vaporise, vaporises, vaporised, vaporising); US spelling vaporize

### meaning for a pupil

1) To turn a liquid or a solid into a gas or vapour, usually by heating it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaporise/#m1)

2) To destroy something completely so that almost nothing is left, as with a ray or a huge blast in stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaporise/#m2)

3) (informal) To disappear suddenly, as if into thin air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaporise/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science it names a change of state: water vaporises when it boils and becomes steam, and the gas spreads out into the air. Sweat cools you because it vaporises from your skin. In science fiction a laser or ray "vaporises" a rock or a ship, which tells the reader nothing is left. Related words: vapour, evaporate, vaporiser. Phrases: "vaporise into steam", "be vaporised by the blast".

### examples

- When water boils, it vaporises and turns into steam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaporise/#x1)
- The puddle vaporised in the hot sun by lunchtime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaporise/#x2)
- In the film, the alien's ray vaporised the rock in a flash. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaporise/#x3)
- A drop of perfume vaporises quickly, so you can smell it across the room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaporise/#x4)
- Our teacher heated the ice until it melted and then vaporised. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaporise/#x5)
- My pocket money seems to vaporise the moment I get to the shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaporise/#x6)
- Liquids vaporise faster when it is hot and windy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaporise/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: vaporised in the past. UK and Australia often spell it "vaporise"; the USA spells it "vaporize"; both are correct. Vaporise and evaporate are close: evaporate is used for slow drying at the surface (a puddle), vaporise for any turning into gas, often fast or with heat. Do not confuse with "vapour" (the noun, the gas itself). In science, the mass of water does not vanish when it vaporises: it is still there as gas.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vaporise» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaporise/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.