VOLATILIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does volatilize mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOLATILIZE (verb)

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

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

volatilise; volatilize

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)