Antonyms for vapored
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : vey-per |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈveɪ pər |
Definition of vapored
Origin :- late 14c., from Anglo-French vapour, from Latin vaporem (nominative vapor) "exhalation, steam, heat," of unknown origin. Vapors "fit of fainting, hysteria, etc." is 1660s, from medieval notion of "exhalations" from the stomach or other organs affecting the brain.
- As in spout : verb talk forcefully
- As in bluster : verb bully, intimidate
- As in boast : verb brag
- As in generalize : verb make a sweeping assumption, statement
- How insane it was to expect any such thing to happen as Vanlief had vapored of!
- Extract from : « The Imitator » by Percival Pollard
- You may imagine what a passion I was in when I vapored and blustered in that way.
- Extract from : « The Queen of Hearts » by Wilkie Collins
- "She needn't to have done that about her piano," vapored Mr. Vertrees.
- Extract from : « The Turmoil » by Booth Tarkington
- He vapored of the family as if, instead of plain Brown, it had been born in the purple.
- Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 33, November 1877 » by Various
Synonyms for vapored
- advertise
- aggrandize
- attract attention
- badger
- be metaphysical
- blow
- blow one's own horn
- blow smoke
- bluster
- boast
- brag
- brazen
- browbeat
- bulldoze
- bully
- chatter
- cock-a-doodle-doo
- con
- conclude
- congratulate oneself
- cow
- crow
- declaim
- derive
- discern
- discover
- domineer
- establish
- exaggerate
- expatiate
- exult
- fake
- flatter oneself
- flaunt
- flourish
- gasconade
- give a good account of oneself
- gloat
- glory
- go on
- grandstand
- gush
- harangue
- hector
- hold forth
- hug oneself
- hypothesize
- induce
- jive
- lay on thick
- observe
- orate
- philosophize
- pontificate
- postulate
- prate
- preen
- psych
- puff
- ramble
- rant
- rave
- ride the high horse
- roar
- roister
- sermonize
- shoot
- shoot off one's mouth
- shovel
- show off
- showboat
- shuck
- sling
- sound off
- speculate
- speechify
- spellbind
- spiel
- stay in the clouds
- storm
- strut
- swagger
- swell
- talk big
- theorize
- triumph
- vapor
- vaunt
- yap
- yell
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