Definitions for Vapors

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Vapors va·por

Spelling: [vey-per]

IPA: /ˈveɪ pər/

Vapors is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in Vapors (aoprsv).

Definitions for Vapors

noun

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

verb (used with object)

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

verb (used without object)

1. to rise or pass off in the form of vapor.
2. to emit vapor or exhalations.
3. to talk or act grandiloquently, pompously, or boastfully; bluster.

Origin of Vapors

1325-75; Middle English vapour Latin vapor steam

Examples for Vapors

An embarrassed silence fell like a vapor over the assemblage.

We feel the pull between life as painful reality—and forgotten wisps of vapor.

If you plan to take in vapor in such amounts, you have to get juice with a low nicotine content to avoid poisoning yourself.

As a result, the vapor measurements Mahar obtained are likely the best-case scenario.

A simple experiment will show that no bacteria will exist in that vapor.

Mrs. Alexander smiled at him across the vapor from the kettle.

On the balcony of the chamber, I came across Ilona Orshansky, the owner of Williamsburg's vapor Lounge New York.

The vapor from our nostrils froze in masses of ice upon our beards.

Back then there were no vapor cigarettes for you simulate smoking.

The air of Berlin was cool and the excess of vapor had been frozen out of it.