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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

... there was, where various talk On various chapters passed the lingering hour, And thither oft he bent his evening walk, And warmed to mirth by wine's enlivening power. And oft on politics the preachments ran, If a pipe lent its thought-begetting fume: And oft important matters would they scan, And deep in council fix a nation's doom: And oft they chuckled loud at jest or jeer, Or bawdy tale the most, thilk much they ...

— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan

... the Baron in a fume, Soon raise a mighty din, Whereon came butler, huntsman, groom, And ...

— Lover's Vows • Mrs. Inchbald

... was full of fumes. I looked around me. Mon Dieu! I staggered. For I knew that in this fume-laden room a thing more horrible and more strange than any within my experience ...

— The Golden Scorpion • Sax Rohmer

... Beetle's brolly. That must be about six feet. She's bung in the middle of King's big upper ten-bedder. Eligible central situation, I call it. She'll stink out his chaps, and Hartopp's and Macrea's, when she really begins to fume. I swear your Uncle Stalky is a great man. Do you realize what a ...

— Stalky & Co. • Rudyard Kipling

... old banner-man, Ralph Genvil, "I see how the wind stirreth you; but you deceive yourselves if you think to make our young master, Sir Damian, a scape-goat for your light lady.—Nay, never frown nor fume, Sir Damian; if you know not your safest course, we know it for you.—Followers of De Lacy, throw yourselves on your horses, and two men on one, if it be necessary—we will take this stubborn boy in the ...

— The Betrothed • Sir Walter Scott

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