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volatize

volatize 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 volatize

third-person singular presentvolatizes
present participlevolatizing
past participlevolatized
pastvolatized

Questions about volatize

What is volatize the alternative form of?
Volatize is the alternative form of volatilize.

Words near volatize in the dictionary

  1. volatilomes
  2. volatilomic
  3. volatilomics
  4. volatization
  5. volatizations
  6. volatize
  7. volatized
  8. volatizes
  9. volatizing
  10. volator
  11. volators

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Adapted from Wiktionary: volatize (page history and authors); volatilize (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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