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Noun: vapours  vey-pu(r)z
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: vapors)
  1. A state of depression
    "he had a bad case of the vapours";
    - blues, blue devils, megrims, vapors [US]
Noun: vapour  vey-pu(r)
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: vapor)
  1. A visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance
    - vapor [US]
     
  2. The process of becoming a vapour
    - vaporization, vaporisation [Brit], vapor [US], evaporation
Verb: vapour  vey-pu(r)
Usage: Cdn (=vapor)
  1. [Brit, Cdn] 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, rabbit [Brit, informal], vapor [US], twattle [UK, dialect], witter [Brit, informal], yabber [Brit, informal], yatter [Brit, informal]
     
  2. [N. Amer] Become or emit vapour
    - vapor [US]

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

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