Definition of "volatilize"

volatilize

verb
third-person singular simple present volatilizes, present participle volatilizing, simple past and past participle volatilized
1. (transitive) To make volatile; to cause to evaporate.
  Quotations
  But the healthy breeze of a neighbouring heath, on which we bounded at pleaſure, volatilized the humours that improper food might have generated.
  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, […], chapter VII, page 145
2. (transitive, figurative) To make insubstantial; to dissipate.
3. (intransitive) To become volatile; to evaporate.