vapors

verb

present tense third-person singular of vapor
as in boasts
to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess a faded Southern belle tiresomely vaporing about all the handsome beaux she had in her long-ago youth

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  1. boasts
  2. brags
  3. blows
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  • Around fifty thousand people of Filipino descent live in Queens, many of them in Woodside, which boasts New York City’s oldest Jollibee, a mega-popular Filipino fast-food chain.
    — Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Birmingham is popular with motorcycle and auto racing fans because of the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, which boasts the largest collection of vintage motorcycles and Lotus race cars.
    — Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of boasts
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  • For decades that math was simply the cost of doing business in industries nobody brags about owning.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • Kiffin sounds like the employee who left Applebee’s for Chili’s and then brags about the international cuisine.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2026
Definition of brags
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  • The Las Vegas spectacle, which opened to the public in August 2025, already blows audiences around with tornado-force wind, shakes them with haptic seats, sends giant winged monkeys flying overhead and drops hundreds of foam apples from the ceiling.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
  • By the time Frey and Felder nearly came to blows backstage in the summer of 1980, however, those threads were too frayed to hold.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of blows
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“Vapors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vapors. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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