VOLATILISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does volatilise mean? 

• VOLATILISE (verb)
  The verb VOLATILISE has 1 sense:

1. make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor

  Familiarity information: VOLATILISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOLATILISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they volatilise    ... he / she / it volatilises   
Past simple: volatilised   
Past participle: volatilised   
-ing form: volatilising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

volatilise; volatilize

Hypernyms (to "volatilise" 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:

volatilisable ((used of substances) capable of being volatilized)