vaporise
vaporise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of vaporize.
Meaning of vaporize
Verb
vaporize (third-person singular simple present vaporizes, present participle vaporizing, simple past and past participle vaporized)
- To turn into vapor.
- 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.2016 January 14, Jessica Hall, “Nanoengineers build 'microcannons' that fire light-up bullets filled with drugs”, in ExtremeTech
Forms of vaporise
| third-person singular present | vaporises |
|---|---|
| present participle | vaporising |
| past participle | vaporised |
| past | vaporised |
Origin of vaporise
From vapor + -ise.
Words formed from vaporise
Questions about vaporise
- What is vaporise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
- Vaporise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of vaporize.
Words near vaporise in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: vaporise (page history and authors); vaporize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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