vapourized

Made into mist

Vapourized is the British spelling of vaporized—converted into vapour or destroyed so completely as to seem reduced to nothing.

A liquid vapourizes when heated past its boiling point.

In figurative use, things that vanish instantly are vapourized: The scandal vapourized his political career.

The laser vapourized the target.

evaporation

steam

Heated water's gaseous form

  • boilingLiquid vaporization temperature
  • mistFine airborne moisture
  • fogLow-lying cloud cover

distillation · humidity · condensation · dewpoint · clouds · evapotranspiration · perspiration · sublimation · dew · saturation

dispersal

diffusion

Passive molecular spreading

aerosolization · scattering · emission · exhalation · effusion · permeation · dissemination · release · dilution · fumigation

Opposites
physical state transformation

vapourizedcondensed

Made more compact

solidified · liquefied · frozen · crystallized · precipitated

material integrity/existence

vapourizedintact

Not damaged or altered

solid · preserved · materialized · survived · reconstituted

cohesion/integrity

vapourizedconsolidated

Merged into a whole

compacted · compressed · stabilized · solidified · coalesced

Family

vapourize, vapourizes, vapourizing

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