vaporing

Verb

vapor (third-person singular simple present vapors, present participle vaporing, simple past and past participle vapored)

1. (US, intransitive) To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.
2. (US, transitive) To turn into vapor.
   • to vapor away a heated fluid
3. (US) To emit vapor or fumes.
   • Running waters vapour not so much as standing waters.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...
4. (US, intransitive) To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.
   • He vapoured, and fretted, and fumed, and trotted up and down, and tried to make himself pleasing in Miss Hollis's big, quiet, grey eyes, and failed.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Bisara of Pooree”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 172
5. (US, transitive) To give (someone) the vapors; to depress, to bore.
   • “I only mean,” cried she, giddily, “that he might have some place a little more pleasant to live in, for really that old moat and draw-bridge are enough to vapour him to death […].”1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.vi.9

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Noun

vapouring (plural vapourings)

1. Boasting; blustering.
   • All these valorous vapourings had a considerable effect in convincing certain profound sages, many of whom began to think the general a hero of unutterable loftiness and magnanimity of soul, particularly as he was continually protesting on the honour of a soldier—a marvellously high sounding...1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], chapter IV, in A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume II, New York, N.Y....