vapourize

Make into mist

To vapourize is to convert into vapour—to make something pass from liquid or solid into gaseous form.

Heat vapourizes water.

Lasers can vapourize tissue.

Figuratively, to vapourize is to destroy utterly, as if reducing to nothing: The explosion vapourized the building.

Also spelled vaporize.

physical

steam

Heated water's gaseous form

Opposites

phase transition direction

vapourizecondense

Make more compact

existence/destruction

Become physically present

physical cohesion

vapourizecondense

Make more compact

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