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get the vapors

get the vapors verb: to be about to faint.

Verb

get the vapors (third-person singular simple present gets the vapors, present participle getting the vapors, simple past got the vapors, past participle gotten the vapors)

  1. (dated, rare) to be about to faint

Forms of get the vapors

third-person singular presentgets the vapors
present participlegetting the vapors
pastgot the vapors
past participlegotten the vapors

Questions about get the vapors

What does get the vapors mean?
Get the vapors means to be about to faint.
What part of speech is get the vapors?
Get the vapors is a verb.
What is the past tense of get the vapors?
The past tense of get the vapors is got the vapors.

Words near get the vapors in the dictionary

  1. get the push
  2. get the runaround
  3. get the sack
  4. get the show on the road
  5. get the thumb
  6. get the vapors
  7. get the vapours
  8. get the wall
  9. get the wind up
  10. get the word out
  11. get the worst of it

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