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volatilizing

volatilizing is the present participle and gerund 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 volatilizing

What is volatilizing the present participle and gerund of?
Volatilizing is the present participle and gerund of volatilize.

Words near volatilizing in the dictionary

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

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