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VOLATILIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they volatilize ... he / she / it volatilizes
Past simple: volatilized
Past participle: volatilized
-ing form: volatilizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor
Synonyms:
volatilise; volatilize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "volatilize" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
volatile (evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures)
volatilizable ((used of substances) capable of being volatilized)
