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vapors

noun

Meaning

  1. Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.
  2. The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.
  3. Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.
  4. Any medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapour.
  5. (in the plural) Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder.
  6. Wind; flatulence.
  7. To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.
  8. To turn into vapor.
  9. To emit vapor or fumes.
  10. To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.
  11. To give (someone) the vapors; to depress, to bore.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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