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va⋅pour
[vey-per] 
va⋅por
[vey-per] –noun
| 1. | a visible exhalation, as fog, mist, steam, smoke, or noxious gas, diffused through or suspended in the air: the vapors rising from the bogs. |
| 2. | Physics. a gas at a temperature below its critical temperature. |
| 3. | a substance converted into vapor for technical or medicinal uses. |
| 4. | a combination of a vaporized substance and air. |
| 5. | gaseous particles of drugs that can be inhaled as a therapeutic agent. |
| 6. | Archaic.
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| 7. | vapors, Archaic.
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–verb (used with object)
| 8. | to cause to rise or pass off in, or as if in, vapor; vaporize. |
| 9. | Archaic. to affect with vapors; depress. |
–verb (used without object)
| 10. | to rise or pass off in the form of vapor. |
| 11. | to emit vapor or exhalations. |
| 12. | to talk or act grandiloquently, pompously, or boastfully; bluster. |
Also, especially British, vapour.
Origin:
1325–75; ME vapour < L vapor steam
1325–75; ME vapour < L vapor steam
Related forms:
va⋅por⋅a⋅ble, adjective
va⋅por⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
va⋅por⋅er, noun
va⋅por⋅less, adjective
va⋅por⋅like, adjective
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| va·pour (vā'pər) n. & v. Chiefly British Vapor. |
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