Fume

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  • noun. Vapor, gas, or smoke, especially if irritating, harmful, or strong.
  • noun. A strong or acrid odor.
  • noun. A state of resentment or vexation.
  • intransitive verb. To subject to or treat with fumes.
  • intransitive verb. To give off in or as if in fumes.
  • intransitive verb. To emit fumes.
  • intransitive verb. To rise in fumes.
  • intransitive verb. To feel or show resentment or vexation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Smoked: as, verve fume (‘smoked glass’).
  • Smoky; having a smoky tint: as, quartz fumé.
  • That has been subjected to the process of fuming, as oak, in order to obtain an antique appearance.
  • noun. Smoke.
  • noun. Incense.
  • noun. Any smoky or invisible vaporous exhalation, especially if possessing narcotic, stifling, or other marked properties; volatile matter arising from anything; an exhalation: generally in the plural: as, the fumes of tobacco; the fumes of burning sulphur; the fumes of wine.
  • noun. Any mental agitation regarded as clouding or affecting the understanding; excitement; especially, an irritable or angry mood; passion: generally in the singular.
  • noun. Anything comparable to fume or vapor, from being unsubstantial or fleeting, as an idle conceit, a vain imagination, and the like.
  • noun. The incense of praise; hence, inordinate flattery.
  • noun. One apt to get into a fume; a passionate person.
  • To smoke; throw off smoke in combustion.
  • To emit any smoky or invisible vaporous exhalation; throw off narcotic, stifling, pungent, fragrant, or otherwise noticeable volatile matter.
  • To be confused by emotion, excitement, or excess, as if by stupefying or poisonous fumes.
  • To pass off in vapor.
  • To be angered or irritated; be in a passion.
  • To fret, chafe, storm.
  • To smoke; dry in smoke; fumigate.
  • To treat with fumes, as of a chemical substance.
  • To perfume.
  • To disperse or drive away in vapors; send up as vapor.
  • To offer incense to; hence, to flatter excessively.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek.
  • noun. Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.
  • noun. Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
  • noun. The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
  • noun. Solid material deposited by condensation of fumes.
  • noun. in ill temper, esp. from impatience.
  • transitive verb. To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; ; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room.
  • transitive verb. To praise inordinately; to flatter.
  • transitive verb. To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.
  • intransitive verb. To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.
  • intransitive verb. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
  • intransitive verb. To pass off in fumes or vapors.
  • intransitive verb. To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.
  • intransitive verb. to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A gas or vapour/vapor that smells strongly or is dangerous to inhale. Fumes are solid particles formed by condensation from the gaseous state, e.g. metal oxides from volatilized metals. They can flocculate and coalesce. Their particle size is between 0.1 and 1 micron. (A micron is one millionth of a metre)
  • noun. A material that has been vaporized from the solid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.
  • verb. Emit fumes.
  • verb. Expose something (especially wood) to ammonia fumes in order to produce dark tints.
  • verb. To feel or express great anger.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests
  • verb. be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face
  • Word Usage
    "Every day the Mayor delays and the bloggers fume is one more day that old, ugly, unsafe structure stays up."
    Form
    fumed  fuming  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    emit  experience  exudate  exude  feel  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bloom  Blum  Blume  Doom  Hume  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ash  compound  draught  exhaust  fog  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form
    fumed  fumes  fuming