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Meanings of vapors in English

A state of depression.

Usage of vapors in English
1
The aim is a coalescing of different cultural vapors into something solid.
Wired
2
The whole mountain was enveloped in clouds of volcanic ashes and vapors.
The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire
3
Male and female mice were exposed to 3 days of ethanol vapors.
Pubmed
4
A furnace pilot light may have ignited the butane vapors, he said.
Reuters
5
The vapors came welling up over his cupped hand, heavy and rich.
Cities in Flight
6
The vapors which issue from this liquid contain almost solely pure alcohol.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
7
Over it I saw form a limpid cloud of the brilliant vapors.
The Metal Monster
8
The thunder mutters, and lightning flames flash out from the dark vapors.
The Wagner Story Book: Firelight Tales of the Great Music Dramas
9
But I hadn't come in pursuit of a selfie with ghostly vapors.
Speaking in Bones
10
Beyond that, a fetid stream ran, sending up vapors of sulfur water.
The Lair of Bones
11
From thence foul vapors rose incessantly and spread a pestilential stench around.
A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
12
He has befogged even my brain at last with his black vapors.
Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Volume 06
13
Passing this fall of vapors, we spied many Islanders taking a bath.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I
14
If the vapors were rising, he, no doubt, could detect their source.
The Master of the World
15
Thick vapors, which could not have been clouds, were floating around them.
Michael Strogoff; Or, The Courier of the Czar
16
The two pieces, spitting vapors and flame, tumbled into the crash barrier.
Iron Man
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common