Definition of "volatilise" []

• Make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Fascinée, elle s'approche d'un grand menhir fendu ... et se volatilise."
• "Truth may also be compared in this respect to certain chemical stuffs which in themselves are gaseous, but which for official uses, as also for preservation or transmission, must be bound to a firm, palpable base, because they would otherwise volatilise."
• "But still, wine constantly leads a man to the brink of absurdity and extravagance, and beyond a certain point it is sure to volatilise and to disperse the intellectual energies: whereas opium always seems to compose what had been agitated, and to concentrate what had been distracted."