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vapourish Definition


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vapour
vapor
noun
    1. A substance in the form of a mist, fume or smoke, especially one coming off from a solid or liquid.
      Thesaurus: steam, mist, condensation, breath, fog, exhalation, gas, haze, smoke, smog.
    2. chem.
      A gas that can be condensed to a liquid by pressure alone, without being cooled, consisting of atoms or molecules, dispersed in the air, that have evaporated from the surface of a substance that normally (ie at standard temperature and pressure) exists in the form of a liquid or solid.
      Example: water vapour
    3. old use
      A feeling of depression, or of faintness, formerly thought to be caused by gases in the stomach.
      Thesaurus: despair, blues, melancholy, depression.
      Form: the vapours
verb, intr vapoured, vapouring
    1. To rise as vapour; to evaporate.
    2. To brag or talk idly.
Derivative: vaporous
adj
    Filled with vapour; taking the form of a vapour
      Thesaurus: foggy, hazy, misty, wispy.
Derivative: vaporously
adverb
    Derivative: vaporousness
    noun
      Derivative: vapourish
      adj
        Derivative: vapoury
        adj
          Etymology: 14c: from Latin vapor steam.



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