Meanings of vapourised in English

Photographs of the vapourised city taken in August 1945 are poor, grainy substitutes.

Are we joining the bugout UN or are we going to be vapourised?

Members of the Labour Party were so energised by their own enthusiasm they vapourised themselves.

Radio New Zealand's Beijing correspondent Ryan Bridge told Morning Report some of those nearest the blast had "simply vapourised."

Our masters run from station to station at our cost, as vapourised ladies at home run about from spa to spa.

They also brewed a diplomatic storm with Washington, whose minor success in nudging the Palestinians towards indirect peace talks may have vapourised.

Other counties well up in a furnace and blast out a legacy and find themselves vapourised by the intensity of their own effort.

Yesterday morning cups of water were brought as symbolic offerings as, 60 years to the day after the city was vapourised, Hiroshima remembered its dead.