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English
Etymology
From volatile + -ize.
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 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 Johnson, ; and G[eorge,] G and J 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.
- (transitive, figurative) 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