Definitions for vapours

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vapours va·pour

Spelling: [vey-per]

IPA: /ˈveɪ pər/

Vapours is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 186 anagrams from letters in vapours (aoprsuv).

Definitions for vapours

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.

noun, verb (used with or without object)

1. vapor.

Origin of vapours

1325-75; Middle English vapour Latin vapor steam

Examples for vapours

The vapour which produces incandescence is here absolutely dark.

But no answers were heard; the vapour did not conduct sound.

There was not even a vapour on the hills; the wind had failed in the afternoon.

Besides, the peignoir weighs nothing; a feather, a puff of vapour.

The vapour arising from the wet cloth will raise the pile of the velvet, with the assistance of a whisk gently passed over it.

It appeared to be surrounded by a cloud of vapour which gave off a sickly odour.

It is like a wavering ghost moving in the vapour on the face of the deep.

The cloud, you mean--a dim, ill-defined, dark body of vapour?

In parts indeed he could not tell which was hair and which was black storm and vapour.

A line of vapour through the trees marked the course of the little river.