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vaporing

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adjective

that gives forth vapor.
boastful; bragging.

noun

an act or instance of bragging or blustering; boastful talk.

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Origin of vaporing

First recorded in 1620–30; vapor + -ing2, -ing1
Related formsva·por·ing·ly, adverb

vapor

[vey-per]

noun

a visible exhalation, as fog, mist, steam, smoke, or noxious gas, diffused through or suspended in the air: the vapors rising from the bogs.
Physics. a gas at a temperature below its critical temperature.
a substance converted into vapor for technical or medicinal uses.
a combination of a vaporized substance and air.
gaseous particles of drugs that can be inhaled as a therapeutic agent.
Archaic.
  1. a strange, senseless, or fantastic notion.
  2. something insubstantial or transitory.
vapors, Archaic.
  1. mental depression or hypochondria.
  2. injurious exhalations formerly supposed to be produced within the body, especially in the stomach.

verb (used with object)

to cause to rise or pass off in, or as if in, vapor; vaporize.
Archaic. to affect with vapors; depress.

verb (used without object)

to rise or pass off in the form of vapor.
to emit vapor or exhalations.
to talk or act grandiloquently, pompously, or boastfully; bluster.
Also especially British, va·pour.

Origin of vapor

1325–75; Middle English vapour < Latin vapor steam
Related formsva·por·a·ble, adjectiveva·por·a·bil·i·ty, nounva·por·er, nounva·por·less, adjectiveva·por·like, adjective
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Examples from the Web for vaporing

Historical Examples of vaporing

  • Sir, there has been a good deal of vaporing on this subject.

  • After all the vaporing, I have no expectation of a serious war.

  • The morning was hurrying by and this vaporing was a hindrance to be shuffled off.

    Rose MacLeod

    Alice Brown

  • She saw herself as the most useless, vaporing and purblind of mortals.

    Septimus

    William J. Locke

  • Ralph, thy news has stirred me into vaporing, and the man who built the Orb mill is prating like a child.

British Dictionary definitions for vaporing

vapor

noun

the US spelling of vapour
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for vaporing

vapor

n.

late 14c., from Anglo-French vapour, from Latin vaporem (nominative vapor) "exhalation, steam, heat," of unknown origin. Vapors "fit of fainting, hysteria, etc." is 1660s, from medieval notion of "exhalations" from the stomach or other organs affecting the brain.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Medicine definitions for vaporing

vapor

[vā′pər]

n.

Barely visible or cloudy diffused matter, such as mist, fumes, or smoke, suspended in the air.
The state of a substance that exists below its critical temperature and that may be liquefied by application of sufficient pressure.
The gaseous state of a substance that is liquid or solid under ordinary conditions.
The vaporized form of a medicinal preparation to be administered by inhalation.
A mixture of a vapor and air, as an explosive mixture of gasoline and air burned in an internal-combustion engine.
vapors Exhalations within an organ, especially the stomach, supposed to affect the mental or physical condition. No longer in technical use.
vapors A nervous disorder such as depression or hysteria. No longer in technical use.
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Science definitions for vaporing

vapor

[vā′pər]

The gaseous state of a substance that is normally liquid or solid at room temperature, such as water that has evaporated into the air. See more at vapor pressure. See also water vapor.
A faintly visible suspension of fine particles of matter in the air, as mist, fumes, or smoke.
A mixture of fine droplets of a substance and air, as the fuel mixture of an internal-combustion engine.
Related formsvaporize verb
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