Definition of "vaporize" []

• To convert or be converted into vapor. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Choose cats, and cheese in all its manifestations vanishes forever with only orange powdery smudges to mark its passing; choose cheese, and cats all over the word vaporize with an adorable, furry pop."
• "As a practical matter, the church often skirts this "marriage is forever" tenet using the instrument of annulment -- sort of a way, doctrinally, to "vaporize" an inconvenient prior marriage."
• "So we've confirmed that "vaporize" was too strong a word?"