How to use vapour in a sentence
When I told you that I would fling myself into the lake if you betrayed me, it was not the mere idle vapouring of a foolish girl.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3) | Charles James WillsIn comes Will Joyce to us drunk, and in a talking vapouring humour of his state, and I know not what, which did vex me cruelly.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete | Samuel PepysThe British officers and men fumed and growled at the insult, longing for an opportunity of paying off the vapouring Frenchmen.
True Blue | W.H.G. KingstonWomen without children are always vapouring about their husbands, as if married life ought to be a garden of Eden.
The Woman Thou Gavest Me | Hall CaineSo that this strange word of George Hamon's was to me but empty vapouring brought on by that blow on the head.
Carette of Sark | John Oxenham
British Dictionary definitions for vapour
US vapor
/ (ˈveɪpə) /
particles of moisture or other substance suspended in air and visible as clouds, smoke, etc
a gaseous substance at a temperature below its critical temperature: Compare gas (def. 3)
a substance that is in a gaseous state at a temperature below its boiling point
rare something fanciful that lacks substance or permanence
the vapours archaic a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
to evaporate or cause to evaporate; vaporize
(intr) to make vain empty boasts; brag
Origin of vapour
1Derived forms of vapour
- vapourable or US vaporable, adjective
- vapourability or US vaporability, noun
- vapourer or US vaporer, noun
- vapourish or US vaporish, adjective
- vapourless or US vaporless, adjective
- vapour-like or US vapor-like, adjective
- vapoury or US vapory, adjective
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