vaporize

• vaporise (non-Oxford British English)
• vapourize (Commonwealth, Oxford British English)

From vapor +‎ -ize.

vaporize (third-person singular simple present vaporizes, present participle vaporizing, simple past and past participle vaporized) (American spelling)

1. (ambitransitive) To turn into vapor.
   • 2016 January 14, Jessica Hall, “Nanoengineers build 'microcannons' that fire light-up bullets filled with drugs”, in ExtremeTech‎^[1]:

     PFC vaporizes when hit with an ultrasound pulse, producing rapidly expanding gas bubbles that "fire" the nanobullets out of the microcannons at speeds on the order of meters per second -- and the fluorescent microbullets light up to show exactly where they landed in the tissue target.

• nebulize
• pulverize

vaporize

1. inflection of vaporizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative