vapor
/ˈveɪpɚ/ verb C2- To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.
- To turn into vapor. · to vapor away a heated fluid
- To emit vapor or fumes.
- To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.
- To give (someone) the vapors; to depress, to bore.
He/she/it vapors · Past vapored · Past participle vapored · -ing form vaporing
Verb forms
- Base form
- vapor
- He/she/it
- vapors
- Past
- vapored
- Past participle
- vapored
- -ing form
- vaporing
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Albert had himself presided at the arrangement, or, rather, the symmetrical derangement, which, after coffee, the guests at a breakfast of modern days love to contemplate through the vapor that escapes from their mouths, and ascends in long and fanciful wreaths to the ceiling.
The door, as it opened, disclosed a gloomy sky, in which the moon strove vainly to struggle through a sea of clouds that covered her with billows of vapor which she illumined for an instant, only to sink into obscurity.
The fire crackled, and the smoke ascended like the dull vapor from a volcano; but still no prisoner fell down, as they expected.
The young girl no longer breathed, no breath issued through the half-closed teeth; the white lips no longer quivered—the eyes were suffused with a bluish vapor, and the long black lashes rested on a cheek white as wax.
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