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vapour(2) (iou) and Aphasia, amnestic (health)


vapour(2) (iou)



vapour verb. Also *vapor. LME.
[from the noun Sense 1 may reflect Latin vaporare emit vapour or steam.]
verb intrans. Rise as vapour; be emitted or diffused in the form of vapour. (Foll. by up, out.) Now rare. LME.
H. E. Bates I could see his breath and my own vapouring..in the freezing air.
b. Evaporate away, be dissipated in the form of vapour. Now rare. M16.
c. Pass or be dissolved into a moist or vaporous state. rare. M16.
verb trans.
a. Cause to rise up or up in the form of vapour. Now rare. LME.
b. Convert to vapour; cause to evaporate away; drive out in the form of vapour. Now rare. LME.
a. verb trans. Emit or discharge in the form of vapour. Foll. by out, up. LME-M17.
b. verb intrans. Emit vapour. Long rare. M16.
S. Heaney The supervisor rustled past, sibilant, vapouring into his breviary.
verb trans. Expose to the effect of vapour; treat with vapour; obscure with vapour. rare. M16.
verb intrans. Use empty or insubstantial language; talk or write vacuously, grandiloquently, or boastingly; bluster. E17.
J. Carey Vapouring on about the days of his youth.
b. verb trans. Declare or assert in a boasting or grandiloquent manner. M17.
verb intrans. Act in a boasting or ostentatious manner; show off; swagger. M17.
a. verb trans. Give (a person) the vapours; depress, bore. Now rare. L18.
b. verb intrans. Get the vapours. rare. E19.
vapoured adjective (now rare) (a) filled with or formed from moisture; (b) affected with the vapours, suffering from depression or low spirits: M16.
vapouring verbal noun (a) evaporation; (b) grandiloquent or boastful speech or action; an instance of this, a piece of vain talk or imagination: LME.

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