Term Gallery logo

Meanings of vapors in English

A state of depression.

Synonyms
Examples for "blues"
Examples for "blues"
1
Yet these days it is not just children who experience back-to-school blues.
The Irish Times
2
Mick is one of the best natural blues harp players I've heard.
Life
3
Róisín Ingle explains how to beat New Year blues on a budget.
The Irish Times
4
They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.
Ebony
5
To understand the traveling blues you need to be locked down somewhere.
Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
1
The clouds solidified; the vapours thickened; the trailing veils stayed and accumulated.
Jacob's Room
2
Yet even now the clouds were floating round her and the vapours.
Flames
3
Her rivers and oceans send up vapours in which she is clothed.
The Home and the World
4
The barometer fell sensibly, and indicated an extreme extension of the vapours.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
5
I am sick of her megrims and her vapours and her humours.
Come Rack! Come Rope!
1
I am sick of her megrims and her vapours and her humours.
Come Rack! Come Rope!
2
The trenches were damp and unhealthy, the intervening years full of megrims.
The new yorker
3
How did you manage to clear your head of those confounded megrims?
Armadale
4
Beatrice Coddington had an attack of the megrims and remained in her room.
Madcap
5
You watch a girl who has an attack of the megrims.
Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! Helps for Girls, in School and Out
1
By all of the blue devils it's good to see you, sir!
Logos Run
2
The specially contemporary spirits are not only devils, they are blue devils.
Tremendous Trifles
3
We're a glorious combination against the blue devils, that's what we are.
The Purple Land / Being the Narrative of One Richard Lamb's Adve...
4
Also I once knew a man who had the blue devils.
A Dominie in Doubt
5
Darkness isn't wholesome-tooconducive to low spirits and the blue devils.
The Baronet's Bride; Or, A Woman's Vengeance
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
About this term
More collocations
Vapors through the time
Vapors across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common