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Noun: vapours vey-pu(r)z Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: vapors)
- 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)
- A visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance
- vapor [US] - The process of becoming a vapour
- vaporization, vaporisation [Brit], vapor [US], evaporation Verb: vapour vey-pu(r) Usage: Cdn (=vapor)
- [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] - [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 Encyclopedia: Vapours Vapour |