volatilize
English
Verb
volatilize (third-person singular simple present volatilizes, present participle volatilizing, simple past and past participle volatilized)
- (transitive) To make volatile; to cause to evaporate.
- 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman:
- But the healthy breeze of a neighbouring heath, on which we bounded at pleasure, volatilized the humours that improper food might have generated.
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- (transitive, figuratively) To make insubstantial; to dissipate.
- (intransitive) To become volatile; to evaporate.
Portuguese
Verb
volatilize
- inflection of volatilizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
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