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Vaporing   Listen
verb
Vapor  v. i.  (past & past part. vapored; pres. part. vaporing)  (Written also vapour)  
1.
To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate.
2.
To emit vapor or fumes. (R.) "Running waters vapor not so much as standing waters."
3.
To talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag. "Poets used to vapor much after this manner." "We vapor and say, By this time Matthews has beaten them."


adjective
Vaporing  adj.  Talking idly; boasting; vaunting.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Vaporing" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Urbino. The intention has been to stay disorder and to cure him, rather than to inflict punishment. He suffers under peculiar delusions, believing himself guilty of heresy and dreading poison; which state of mind arises, I incline to think, from melancholic blood forced in upon the heart and vaporing to the brain. A wretched case, in truth, considering his great parts and ...
— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds


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