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Fumes

noun

Gases ejected from an engine as waste products. Synonyms: exhaust, exhaust fumes.

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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"Fumes" Quotes from Famous Books

... very day of the arrest, "The Traveller" lay completed in the poet's desk. The dream of eight years, the solace and sustainment of his exile and poverty, verged at last to fulfilment or extinction, and the hopes and fears which centred in it doubtless mingled on that miserable day with the fumes of the Madeira. In the excitement of putting it to press, which followed immediately after, the nameless novel recedes altogether from the view, but will reappear in due time. Johnson approved the verses more than the novel; read the proof-sheets ...

— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury

... the two aviators that they had their goggles on, else they too might have suffered from the fumes that so quickly spread in every direction as though fanned by the night breeze. Perk afterwards admitted that he had caught a whiff of the penetrating gas despite the covering helmet and close-fitting goggles but thanks to ...

— Eagles of the Sky - With Jack Ralston Along the Air Lanes • Ambrose Newcomb

... brought in fish and wine, and Jiurozayemon pressed Chobei to feast with him; and thinking to annoy Chobei, offered him a large wine-cup,[23] which, however, he drank without shrinking, and then returned to his entertainer, who was by no means so well able to bear the fumes of the wine. Then Jiurozayemon hit upon another device for annoying Chobei, and, hoping to ...

— Tales of Old Japan • Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford

... 'there are cities everywhere. Over thy head while thou didst sleep they have built them constantly. My four children the Winds suffocate with the fumes of them, the valleys are desolate of flowers, and the lovely forests are cut down since ...

— The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories • Lord Dunsany

... made his men spread a sail for him, and lay down on it; but there came down upon them a rush of flames, and a horrible smell of sulphur, and all ran for their lives. Some of the slaves tried to help the Admiral upon his legs; but he sank down again overpowered with the brimstone fumes, and so was left behind. When they came back again, there he lay dead, but with his clothes in order and his face as quiet as if he had been only sleeping. And that was the end of a brave and learned man—a martyr to duty and ...

— Madam How and Lady Why - or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children • Charles Kingsley

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