vapor

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

vaporsvapour

1.
(US, countable, uncountable)Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.
2.
(US, countable, uncountable)The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.
3.
(US, countable, idiomatic, uncountable)Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.
4.
(US, countable, dated, uncountable)Any medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapour.
5.
(US, archaic, countable, in plural, uncountable)(archaic, in the plural) Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder.
Jan 13, 1732, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift He talks me into a fit of vapours twice or thrice a week.
6.
(US, countable, obsolete, uncountable)Wind; flatulence.

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verb

V_es/s

vapors

V_ing/Gerund

vaporing

V_ed/pp

vaporedvapour

1.
(US, intransitive)To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.
2.
(US, transitive)To turn into vapor.
to vapor away a heated fluid
3.
(US)To emit vapor or fumes.
4.
(US, intransitive)To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.
5.
(US, transitive)To give (someone) the vapors; to depress, to bore.

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From Middle English vapour, from vapour, Old French vapor, from Latin vapor (steam, heat).