Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of vapors; dim or hazy, as if with vapors.
- Affected with the vapors; dejected; splenetic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wet with vapors; moist.
- adjective Affected with the vapors. See
Vapor , n., 5.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
vapor . - adjective Wet with vapors;
moist . - adjective Affected with the
vapors .
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Examples
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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.
The Alhambra 2002
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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.
The Alhambra 2002
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The knowledge that the Emperor was far more sincerely devoted to the cause of freedom and of true reform than were the military conspirators, who, while they vapored about the liberty of the rights of man, were, in truth, acting as the instruments of a ring of slave-holders, who had vowed to be avenged on the author of the Decree of Emancipation, made the sympathy expressed for the Imperial Exile especially strong in England.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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The knowledge that the Emperor was far more sincerely devoted to the cause of freedom and of true reform than were the military conspirators, who, while they vapored about the liberty of the rights of man, were, in truth, acting as the instruments of a ring of slave-holders, who had vowed to be avenged on the author of the Decree of Emancipation, made the sympathy expressed for the Imperial Exile especially strong in England.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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The knowledge that the Emperor was far more sincerely devoted to the cause of freedom and of true reform than were the military conspirators, who, while they vapored about the liberty of the rights of man, were, in truth, acting as the instruments of a ring of slave-holders, who had vowed to be avenged on the author of the Decree of Emancipation, made the sympathy expressed for the Imperial Exile especially strong in England.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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And soon after the glaring pain in his eyesockets vapored into nervelight, the last of his breath spurted out of him and the hot fluid of the skyle pierced his body.
In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984
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Mackenzie vapored and complained of others, formed plans one hour to change the next, and demonstrated the weakness of his shallow nature.
The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Gordon Sellar
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Moorish halls, and vapored about the bastions, and looked down fire and sword upon the palace of the captain-general.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Oh, sublime faith of our fathers, where utter self-sacrifice alone was true love, the fragrance of whose unrequired subjection was pleasant as that of golden censers swung in purple-vapored chancels!
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"She needn't to have done that about her piano," vapored Mr. Vertrees.
The Turmoil 1915
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