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Noun: vapors  vey-purz
Usage: US (elsewhere: vapours)
  1. A state of depression
    "he had a bad case of the vapors";
    - blues, blue devils, megrims, vapours [Brit, Cdn]
Noun: vapor  vey-pur
Usage: US (elsewhere: vapour)
  1. A visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance
    - vapour [Brit, Cdn]
     
  2. The process of becoming a vapor
    - vaporization, vaporisation [Brit], vapour [Brit, Cdn], evaporation
Verb: vapor  vey-pur
Usage: US (elsewhere: vapour)
  1. Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
    - chatter, piffle, palaver [informal], prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle [informal], clack [informal], maunder, prattle, blab [informal], gibber, tattle, blabber [informal], gabble, vapour [Brit, Cdn], rabbit [Brit, informal], twattle [UK, dialect], witter [Brit, informal], yabber [Brit, informal], yatter [Brit, informal]
     
  2. Become or emit vapor
    - vapour [N. Amer]

Type of: depression, mouth, phase change, phase transition, physical change, speak, state change, suspension, talk, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize

Encyclopedia: Vapors

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