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gaseous

adjective as in vaporous

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Its sound is like a gaseous rumbling from deep within the earth—or our bellies.

Another concerns the gaseous nebulas in which the planets and their stars formed.

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In one marketing brief it was referred to as “removing gaseous contaminants” from the air supply.

Her gauzy, often gaseous, rhetoric made her sound like a dean of students at a small liberal arts college.

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Along with gaseous reactive nitrogen, satellites burning up as they re-enter the atmosphere at the end of their lives leave tiny particles of aluminum oxide, imperilling the still-recovering ozone layer.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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