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Fume

noun

A cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas. Synonym: smoke.

verb

(past & past part. fumed; pres. part. fuming)

Be mad, angry, or furious.

Emit a cloud of fine particles. Synonym: smoke.

Treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests. Synonym: fumigate.

Be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face. Synonym: reek.

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"Fume" Quotes from Famous Books

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— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... face and beard covered; and when you breathed on us that low tavern air from your fetid mouth, you apologized on grounds of ill health, saying that you were taking a kind of wine treatment? When we had accepted your explanation—what else could we do?—we stood a while in the smell and fume of the joints you patronize until you kicked us out by the impudence of your answers and the ...

— An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams • Pierre Nicole

... above the mirk. It was impossible to decide whether an enormous mass of pitchy and Tartarian gloom was being slowly moulded by diabolic invisible hands into a city, or a city, the desperate and damned abode of a loveless race, was disintegrating into its proper fume and dusty chaos. With relief we turned outwards to the nobility of the St Lawrence ...

— Letters from America • Rupert Brooke

... now you'll find me, Still detained against my will; And I wish, distinctly, mind me, To accentuate the "still;" It's a sort of consolation, As I sit, and fume, and frown, That the greatest botheration Of my ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, September 3, 1892 • Various

... to the front. There the wind caught them, wet and furious; the water raged below. Between the two Helena shrank, wilted. She took hold of Siegmund. The great, brutal wave flung itself at the rock, then drew back for another heavy spring. Fume and spray were spun on the wind like smoke. The roaring thud of the waves reminded Helena of a beating heart. She clung closer to him, as her hair was blown out damp, and her white dress flapped in the wet wind. Always, against the rock, came the slow thud of the waves, ...

— The Trespasser • D.H. Lawrence

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