vaporizes
Turns to mist
Vaporizes means to convert or be converted into vapor—the gaseous state of a substance normally liquid or solid.
Water vaporizes when heated to boiling.
In figurative use, to vaporize something is to destroy it utterly and instantly, as if reducing it to nothing: The laser vaporized the target.
Money or hopes can vaporize when they disappear suddenly: My savings vaporized in the crash.
Changes from liquid to gas
- boilsHeats to bubbling
- steamHeated water's gaseous form
- mistFine airborne moisture
- gaseousIn vapor form
sublimation · atomizes · dissipates · volatilizes · aerosol · nebulizes · converts · heats
evaporates
Changes from liquid to gas
gaseous · sublimation · atomizes · dissipates · volatilizes · aerosol · nebulizes · converts · heats · liquid
vaporizescondenses
Reduces to essentials
liquefies · solidifies · freezes · precipitates · crystallizes
vaporizessolidifies
Becomes hard or firm
materializes · coalesces · forms · accumulates · thickens