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The correct spelling is vapour.
How to pronounce vapour
noun
Say it like: Vap-owr
The correct spelling is vapour. Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air. For example: "to vapor away a heated fluid"
Usage Examples
“to vapor away a heated fluid”
Meanings
noun
- 1.Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.
- 2.The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.
- 3.Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.
- 4.Any medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapour.
- 5.(in the plural) Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder.
verb
- 1.To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.
- 2.To turn into vapor.
- 3.To emit vapor or fumes.
- 4.To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.
- 5.To give (someone) the vapors; to depress, to bore.
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