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volatilise

volatilise is the alternative form of volatilize.

Meaning of volatilize

Verb

volatilize (third-person singular simple present volatilizes, present participle volatilizing, simple past and past participle volatilized)

  1. (transitive) To make volatile; to cause to evaporate.
    • But the healthy breeze of a neighbouring heath, on which we bounded at pleaſure, volatilized the humours that improper food might have generated.1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume I, London: […]...
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To make insubstantial; to dissipate.
  3. (intransitive) To become volatile; to evaporate.

Forms of volatilise

third-person singular presentvolatilises
present participlevolatilising
past participlevolatilised
pastvolatilised

Origin of volatilise

From volatile + -ise.

Words formed from volatilise

Questions about volatilise

What is volatilise the alternative form of?
Volatilise is the alternative form of volatilize.

Words near volatilise in the dictionary

  1. volatileness
  2. volatiles
  3. volatilisable
  4. volatilisation
  5. volatilisations
  6. volatilise
  7. volatilised
  8. volatiliser
  9. volatilisers
  10. volatilises
  11. volatilising

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