get the vapors

verb

to be about to faint

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Meanings

verbget the vapors (third-person singular simple present gets the vapors, present participle getting the vapors, simple past got the vapors, past participle gotten the vapors)

present singular third person gets the vapors · participle present getting the vapors · past got the vapors · participle past gotten the vapors

  1. datedrareto be about to faint
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