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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vapourise.

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Examples

  • Aye, and see what vapourises; then he will see what is foul.

    Thursday Night « Gerry Canavan 2010

  • Piracy is an alternative that vapourises the nuisance.

    Are Paid Downloads Dead? 2008

  • And the platypus has survived ,evolved and flourished for millions of years, and I hope that bike vapourises sometime soon

    Evolving or Devolving? From Comebacks to CamelBaks BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • Water, when it boils and turns into steam or vapour, is heated by or extracts heat from the fire, but water vapourises at a high temperature and so cannot be used to produce cold.

    Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers Russell Doubleday 1910

  • Such electric moments can make the poetry of distant times blaze with such heat and light that it vapourises every question of history, of form and technique.

    GotPoetry.com News 2010

  • Such electric moments can make the poetry of distant times blaze with such heat and light that it vapourises every question of history, of form and technique.

    GotPoetry.com News 2010

  • This is because the initial fire starts and burns out but the heat vapourises the stuff inside, like the carpet or furniture or plastic items (they don't burn because there is no oxygen, which has depleted), and then when you open the door or window air rushes in, now there is fuel+oxygen+heat resulting in a fireball.

    reddit.com: what's new online! 2010

  • This is because the initial fire starts and burns out but the heat vapourises the stuff inside, like the carpet or furniture or plastic items (they don't burn because there is no oxygen, which has depleted), and then when you open the door or window air rushes in, now there is fuel+oxygen+heat resulting in a fireball.

    reddit.com: what's new online! 2010

  • This is because the initial fire starts and burns out but the heat vapourises the stuff inside, like the carpet or furniture or plastic items (they don't burn because there is no oxygen, which has depleted), and then when you open the door or window air rushes in, now there is fuel+oxygen+heat resulting in a fireball.

    reddit.com: what's new online! 2010

  • This was done using carbon dioxide snow, or dry ice, that vapourises and carries away any foreign particles.

    Space News From SpaceDaily.Com 2009

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