vapor

Meanings

Noun

• Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.
• The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.
• Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.
• Any medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapour.
• Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder.
• Wind; flatulence.

Verb

• To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.
• To turn into vapor.
• To emit vapor or fumes.
• To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.
• To give (someone) the vapors; to depress, to bore.

Origin

• From Middle English vapour, from Anglo-Norman vapour, Old French vapor, from Latin vapor.