- 1（使）汽化、蒸發；引申為「灰飛煙滅、化為烏有」
To vaporize means to turn into vapor, or to make something turn into vapor. It works both ways round in the grammar, which is worth noticing. You can say "the liquid vaporized" — nothing did it to the liquid, it just changed. Or "the heat vaporized the liquid" — now something is doing it. Same word, two shapes.
In science this is the plain technical term for a liquid or solid becoming a gas, usually through heat. Chemists and engineers use it , with no drama.
Outside the lab, it has a strong second life meaning to destroy something so completely that nothing is left at all. This is the film and game meaning: a laser hits a target and it vaporizes — no body, no wreckage, just gone. From there English stretched it further, into money and plans and jobs: "His savings vaporized in a week." "Ten thousand jobs vaporized overnight." This is , and everyone knows it is, which is why it feels vivid rather than false.
Spelling: American vaporize, British vaporise or vapourise. The related noun is vaporization, and the machine that does it is a vaporizer.
組成vapor + -ize. The ending -ize makes a verb meaning 'to make into' or 'to become' — the same ending as in modernize, memorize.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
vaporizeverb
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To turn into vapor.
- 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.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。