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volatilize

volatilize verb: to make volatile; to cause to evaporate.

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 volatilize

third-person singular presentvolatilizes
present participlevolatilizing
past participlevolatilized
pastvolatilized

Origin of volatilize

From volatile + -ize.

Words formed from volatilize

Questions about volatilize

What does volatilize mean?
Volatilize means to make volatile; to cause to evaporate.
What part of speech is volatilize?
Volatilize is a verb.
What is the past tense of volatilize?
The past tense of volatilize is volatilized.

Words near volatilize in the dictionary

  1. volatility tax
  2. volatility taxes
  3. volatilizable
  4. volatilization
  5. volatilizations
  6. volatilize
  7. volatilized
  8. volatilizer
  9. volatilizers
  10. volatilizes
  11. volatilizing

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