Converted from liquid or solid form into vapor or gas; also used colloquially to mean disappeared or destroyed instantly.
From French 'vapeur,' from Latin 'vapor' meaning 'steam' or 'exhalation.' The prefix 'vap-' connects to the Indo-European root for 'blow' or 'wave.'
The word 'vaporized' gained new urgency during the atomic age—it became the term for what happens to matter in a nuclear explosion. This scientific term shows how modern weapons changed language itself.
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