vaporize
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting
in this computer game, space travellers are vaporized by aliens
Types & categories
- kill hypernym
Related & opposite
- zapper derivation
Sense 2 verb
turn into gas
The substance gasified
Types & categories
- change integrity hypernym
- sublime hyponym
Related & opposite
- gasification derivation
- vaporisation derivation
- gas derivation
- gasoline derivation
- air derivation
- gas derivation
- natural gas derivation
- vapor derivation
- vaporific derivation
Sense 3 verb
lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue
evaporate milk
Types & categories
- change integrity hypernym
- transpire hyponym
Related & opposite
- drying up derivation
- vaporisation derivation
- vapor derivation
- vaporific derivation
Sense 4 verb
decrease rapidly and disappear
the money vanished in las Vegas
Types & categories
- decrease hypernym
Related & opposite
- fell verb group
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | zapper |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | kill |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | gasification |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | vaporisation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | gas |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | gasoline |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | air |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | gas |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | natural gas |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | vapor |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | vaporific |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | change integrity |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | sublime |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | drying up |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | vaporisation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | vapor |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | vaporific |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | change integrity |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | transpire |
| 4 | verb group | Related & opposite | fell |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | decrease |