vaporize-v; 2 Senses

Sense Number 1: (Cause to) be destroyed or to disappear.

Examples:
Space travellers are vaporized by aliens.
The money vaporized in Las Vegas.
All my stock assets have vaporized.

Mappings:
VerbNet: destroy-44
FrameNet: Destroying
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 4

Sense Number 2: Convert into a gas.

Examples:
The substance vaporized.
Scientists vaporized the compound.

Mappings:
VerbNet: other_cos-45.4
FrameNet: Change_of_phase
PropBank: vaporize.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2, 3