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  • present participle of vapor.
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vaporing

[vey-per-ing] / ˈveɪ pər ɪŋ /
NOUN
delusions of grandeur
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The press was busy vaporing upon the significance of a de Valera free to roam the Free State.

From Time Magazine Archive

Apparently the only contribution Fiver could make was this beetle-spirited vaporing.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Ralph, thy news has stirred me into vaporing, and the man who built the Orb mill is prating like a child.

From Lorimer of the Northwest by Alfred James Dewey

In later days the author threw what he probably supposed was the only existing manuscript of this vaporing effusion into the fire.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane

I trembled as I listened to this wild vaporing.

From The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War by Allen Upward




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