Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to vapor
Participle: vapored
Gerund: vaporing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | vapor |
| you | vapor |
| he;she;it | vapors |
| we | vapor |
| you | vapor |
| they | vapor |
Perfect
| I | have vapored |
| you | have vapored |
| he;she;it | has vapored |
| we | have vapored |
| you | have vapored |
| they | have vapored |
Past
| I | vapored |
| you | vapored |
| he;she;it | vapored |
| we | vapored |
| you | vapored |
| they | vapored |
Pluperfect
| I | had vapored |
| you | had vapored |
| he;she;it | had vapored |
| we | had vapored |
| you | had vapored |
| they | had vapored |
Future
| I | will vapor |
| you | will vapor |
| he;she;it | will vapor |
| we | will vapor |
| you | will vapor |
| they | will vapor |
Future Perfect
| I | will have vapored |
| you | will have vapored |
| he;she;it | will have vapored |
| we | will have vapored |
| you | will have vapored |
| they | will have vapored |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | vapor |
| you | vapor |
| he;she;it | vapor |
| we | vapor |
| you | vapor |
| they | vapor |
Perfect
| I | have vapored |
| you | have vapored |
| he;she;it | have vapored |
| we | have vapored |
| you | have vapored |
| they | have vapored |
Imperfect
| I | vapored |
| you | vapored |
| he;she;it | vapored |
| we | vapored |
| you | vapored |
| they | vapored |
Pluperfect
| I | had vapored |
| you | had vapored |
| he;she;it | had vapored |
| we | had vapored |
| you | had vapored |
| they | had vapored |
Conditional
Present
| I | would vapor |
| you | would vapor |
| he;she;it | would vapor |
| we | would vapor |
| you | would vapor |
| they | would vapor |
Perfect
| I | would have vapored |
| you | would have vapored |
| he;she;it | would have vapored |
| we | would have vapored |
| you | would have vapored |
| they | would have vapored |
Imperative
| you | vapor |
| we | Let's vapor |
| you | vapor |
Verbs conjugated like 'vapor'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'vapor'
vapour,
caper,
capon,
capot,
favor,
haxor,
labor,
major,
napoo,
paper,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1374, from Anglo-Fr.
vapour, from L.
vaporem (nom.
vapor) "exhalation, steam, heat," of unknown origin.
Vapors "fit of fainting, hysteria, etc." is 1662, from medieval notion of "exhalations" from the stomach or other organs affecting the brain.
Vaporize (v.) is attested from 1634, originally "to smoke tobacco," later "to convert into vapor" (1803), and "to spray with fine mist" (1900).
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Italic *kwapōs
4. Latin vapor
5. Old French vapeurder.
6. Old French vaporbor.
7. Middle English vapour
8. English vapor
9. From Middle English vapour, from Anglo-Norman vapour, Old French vapor, from Latin vapor (“steam, heat”). See: Latin '
vapor'.
Sample Sentences
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to vapor away a heated fluid
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He'd […]laugh to see one throw his heart away, / Another, sighing, vapour forth his soul. [1617, Ben Jonson, Lovers Made Men:]
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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 by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:]
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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:]
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then the Major gave us a graphic account of a struggle he had with a wounded bear. I privately wished that the bears would win sometimes on these occasions; at least they wouldn't go vapouring about it afterwards. [1904, “Saki”, ‘Reginald's Christmas Revel’, Reginald:]
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[…] an amusing character all but extinct now, but occasionally to be encountered […] vaporing in the groggeries along the tow-path. [1924, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:]
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He felt he would start vapouring with devotion if this went on, so he bruptly took his leave with a cold expression on his face which dismayed her for she thought that it was due to distain for her artistic opinions. [1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 513:]
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“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:]