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to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of
a lightning strike vaporized the tree
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Recent Examples of vaporized
Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 30 Sep. 2025
The first Starship launch vaporized part of the launch site and threw debris as far as 6 miles.
—Taylor Kate Brown, ProPublica, 17 Sep. 2025
This vaporized the harmful metals in the red mud, and left behind a purified compound rich in aluminum.
—New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2025
The idea being that when an atomic bomb lands in your city, you are vaporized instantly.
—Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
Tens of thousands were instantly vaporized or killed in the immediate blast wave, with tens of thousands more dying of radiation sickness over the ensuing weeks and months.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2025
Buildings were knocked flat or seemingly vaporized.
—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 7 Aug. 2025
Here, people must have been instantly vaporized all the way down to their bones.
—Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
The hydrogen flow keeps vaporized tin from mucking up the system’s optics.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 June 2023
Verb
It is designed to test for vaporized tobacco, marijuana, nicotine products, and e-cigarette devices.
—Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
This shock vaporized chunks of the industrial bases of nations around the world, including the United States.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 30 Sep. 2025
The first Starship launch vaporized part of the launch site and threw debris as far as 6 miles.
—Taylor Kate Brown, ProPublica, 17 Sep. 2025
This vaporized the harmful metals in the red mud, and left behind a purified compound rich in aluminum.
—New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2025
The idea being that when an atomic bomb lands in your city, you are vaporized instantly.
—Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
Tens of thousands were instantly vaporized or killed in the immediate blast wave, with tens of thousands more dying of radiation sickness over the ensuing weeks and months.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2025
Buildings were knocked flat or seemingly vaporized.
—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 7 Aug. 2025
Here, people must have been instantly vaporized all the way down to their bones.
—Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
The hydrogen flow keeps vaporized tin from mucking up the system’s optics.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 June 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vaporized
Verb
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Herodotus reasoned that had Helen in fact been within the walls of Troy instead of in Egypt, the Trojans would surely have surrendered her to the Greeks rather than allow their city to be destroyed.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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Your homes may have been damaged or destroyed and your communities and towns no longer look the same.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Heat decreases the amount of dissolved oxygen in water.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
22 Sep. 2025
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This was when Earth’s oceans witnessed an oceanic anoxic event, where vast areas became severely depleted of dissolved oxygen.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Aug. 2025
Verb
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No, baseball was not yet ruined.—
Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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There is even Depardieu’s own late son, Guillaume, whose death at age thirty-seven was hastened along by heroin use that had ruined his health, and over whom Ferrara recalls Depardieu shedding copious tears during one of their early meetings.—
Nick Pinkerton,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The East Wing has been demolished before our eyes.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Oct. 2025
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More recently, high-profile firms including Amazon, Apple, Coinbase, Comcast, Google, Lockheed Martin and Meta Platforms have agreed to help finance the ballroom Trump plans for the White House after ordering the building’s East Wing to be demolished.—
Bill Barrow,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The case of Mamulya, a donkey whose hoof was shattered, apparently in a mine explosion, becomes central to the story, emblematic of the assistance the sanctuary receives from within and beyond Ukraine’s borders in order to provide state-of-the-art medical treatments.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
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But when newspapers shifted from reinforcing social order to documenting disorder in readers’ own communities, audiences responded by distrusting the institution that shattered their comforting myths.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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After back-to-back freezes wrecked their crops in New Smyrna Beach, the Bryans found fertile land in Hollywood and established the county’s first orange grove on the land the house stands on, Taylor said.—
Amanda Rosa
October 23,
Miami Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
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The Ravens host the Chicago Bears in what feels like a must-win for a 1-5 Baltimore squad that’s been wrecked by injuries.—
Andy Scholes,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Residents of Kingston, Jamaica, were already dealing with floodwaters on Friday, as concerns are growing that the impact could be the worst since Hurricane Gilbert devastated the island in 1988.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
25 Oct. 2025
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This happened when Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina last year.—
Chris Dolce,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The correlation seemed to suggest that space was alive with invisible forces that bound together the variable environments of the Sun and Earth.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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To make sense out of this tangle of connections and contingencies, many macroscopes employ computational models to reveal the key economic, medical, political, educational, or ecological relationships that are often invisible to all but the experts.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Vaporized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vaporized. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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