volatilize

English

Etymology

From volatile +‎ -ize.

Verb

volatilize (third-person singular simple present volatilizes, present participle volatilizing, simple past and past participle volatilized)

1. (transitive) To make volatile; to cause to evaporate.
   • 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter VII, page 145:

     But the healthy breeze of a neighbouring heath, on which we bounded at pleaſure, volatilized the humours that improper food might have generated.

2. (transitive, figurative) To make insubstantial; to dissipate.
3. (intransitive) To become volatile; to evaporate.

Portuguese

Verb

volatilize

1. inflection of volatilizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative