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volatilizes

volatilizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

Questions about volatilizes

What is volatilizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Volatilizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of volatilize.

Words near volatilizes in the dictionary

  1. volatilizations
  2. volatilize
  3. volatilized
  4. volatilizer
  5. volatilizers
  6. volatilizes
  7. volatilizing
  8. volatilome
  9. volatilomes
  10. volatilomic
  11. volatilomics

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