vapor
noun
a visible exhalation, such as fog, mist, steam, smoke, or noxious gas, diffused through or suspended in the air.
vapored
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past participleof vapor.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof vapor.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
vapornouna visible exhalation, such as fog, mist, steam, smoke, or noxious gas, diffused through or suspended in the air.
Example Sentences
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The Tribune must have more "kick," so it vapored about "a few daring New Yorkers" venturing into the "far West," discovering Chicago and telling their friends about it.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I don't care so much about the money," vapored Sube; "but I'm goin' to be awful tired when I get through cuttin' the lawn."
From Sube Cane by Edward Bellamy Partridge
"She needn't to have done that about her piano," vapored Mr. Vertrees.
From The Turmoil, a novel by Booth Tarkington
The warriors were evidently baffled by these precautions, and, having smoked their pipe, and vapored off their valor, took their departure.
From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving
For a time he stormed about the Moorish halls, and vapored about the bastions, and looked down fire and sword upon the palace of the captain-general.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
