VAPORS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vapors mean? 

• VAPORS (noun)
  The noun VAPORS has 1 sense:

1. a state of depression

  Familiarity information: VAPORS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VAPORS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of depression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

blue devils; blues; megrims; vapors; vapours

Context example:

he had a bad case of the blues

Hypernyms ("vapors" is a kind of...):

depression (a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity)

 Context examples 

Being exposed to tobacco smoke, air pollution, dusts, vapors, and fumes can also cause acute bronchitis.

(Acute Bronchitis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Many young people inhale vapors from these, not knowing that it can cause serious health problems.

(Inhalants, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

Acute exposure to its vapors results in irritation of the eyes, skin, and respiratory tract.

(Acetaldehyde, NCI Thesaurus)

When 1,4-dichlorobenzene is heated to decomposition, toxic gases and vapors (such as hydrochloric acid and carbon monoxide) are released.

(Paradichlorobenzene, NCI Thesaurus)

A complex mixture of dusts, vapors and gases that contains various known or potential carcinogens, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, formaldehyde, nitrosamines, coal tar and coal tar pitch, cadmium, benzene and arsenic compounds.

(Coke Oven Emission, NCI Thesaurus)

Inhalation exposure to its vapors is highly irritating to the eyes and lungs and may cause damage to the liver, kidney, heart and central nervous system, while dermal contact causes severe blistering.

(Dimethyl Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus)

Exposure to its vapors causes severe irritation of the skin, eyes, mucous membranes, respiratory tract as well as pulmonary edema, pneumonia and lung cancer (mainly small-cell type) in humans.

(Chloromethyl Methyl Ether, NCI Thesaurus)

This substance is irritating to eyes and mucous membranes and emits toxic vapors of hydrochloric acid and other chlorinated compounds when heated to decomposition.

(Bis(chloromethyl) Ether, NCI Thesaurus)

He saw these other scenes through drifting vapors and swirls of sullen fog dissolving before shafts of red and garish light.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In the presence of moisture, its hydrolyzed vapors (benzoic acid and hydrochloric acid) are highly irritating to the skin and mucous membranes in humans.

(Benzotrichloride, NCI Thesaurus)