vapours
noun
Meaning
- 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.
- (in the plural) Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder.
- Wind; flatulence.
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