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get the vapours

get the vapours is the alternative form of get the vapors.

Meaning of get the vapors

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 vapours

third-person singular presentgets the vapours
present participlegetting the vapours
past participlegot the vapours
pastgot the vapours

Questions about get the vapours

What is get the vapours the alternative form of?
Get the vapours is the alternative form of get the vapors.

Words near get the vapours in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: get the vapours (page history and authors); get the vapors (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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