Smoke

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  • noun. The vaporous system made up of small particles of carbonaceous matter in the air, resulting mainly from the burning of organic material, such as wood or coal.
  • noun. A suspension of fine solid or liquid particles in a gaseous medium.
  • noun. A cloud of fine particles.
  • noun. Something insubstantial, unreal, or transitory.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act of smoking a form of tobacco.
  • noun. The duration of this act.
  • noun. Tobacco in a form that can be smoked, especially a cigarette.
  • noun. A substance used in warfare to produce a smoke screen.
  • noun. Something used to conceal or obscure.
  • noun. A pale to grayish blue to bluish or dark gray.
  • noun. Pitches thrown at high velocity; fast balls.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To draw in and exhale smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe.
  • intransitive verb. To engage in smoking regularly or habitually.
  • intransitive verb. To emit smoke or a smokelike substance.
  • intransitive verb. To emit smoke excessively.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To go or proceed at high speed.
  • intransitive verb. To play or perform energetically.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To draw in and exhale the smoke of (tobacco, for example).
  • intransitive verb. To do so regularly or habitually.
  • intransitive verb. To preserve (meat or fish) by exposure to the aromatic smoke of burning hardwood, usually after pickling in salt or brine.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To fumigate (a house, for example).
  • intransitive verb. To expose (animals, especially insects) to smoke in order to immobilize or drive away.
  • intransitive verb. To expose (glass) to smoke in order to darken or change its color.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To kill; murder.
  • intransitive verb. To defeat decisively, as in a competition.
  • intransitive verb. To throw (a pitch) at high velocity.
  • phrasal verb. To force out of a place of hiding or concealment by or as if by the use of smoke.
  • phrasal verb. To detect and bring to public view; expose or reveal.
  • idiom. (smoke and mirrors) Something that deceives or distorts the truth.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The exhalation, visible vapor, or material that escapes or is expelled from a burning substance during combustion: applied especially to the volatile matter expelled from wood, coal, peat, etc., together with the solid matter which is carried off in suspension with it, that expelled from metallic substances being more generally called fume or fumes.
  • noun. Anything that resembles smoke; steam; vapor; watery exhalations; dust.
  • noun. Hence Something unsubstantial; something ephemeral or transient: as, the affair ended in smoke.
  • noun. The act or process of drawing in and puffing out the fumes of burning tobacco, opium, or the like.
  • noun. A chimney.
  • To emit smoke; throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; reek; fume; especially, to send off visible vapor as the product of combustion.
  • To burn; be kindled; rage; fume.
  • To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
  • To smell or hunt something out; suspect something; perceive a hidden fact or meaning.
  • To permit the passage of smoke outward instead of drawing it upward; send out smoke for want of sufficient draft: said of chimneys, stoves, etc.
  • To draw fumes of burning tobacco, opium, or the like, into, and emit them from, the mouth; use tobacco or opium in this manner.
  • To suffer as from overwork or hard treatment; be punished.
  • To emit dust, as when beaten.
  • To apply smoke to; blacken with smoke; hang in smoke; medicate or dry by smoke; fumigate: as, to smoke infected clothing; to subject to the action of smoke, as meat; cure by means of smoke; smoke-dry; also, to incense.
  • To affect in some way with smoke; especially, to drive or expel by smoke: generally with out; also, to destroy or kill, as bees, by smoke.
  • Word Usage
    "The suffering man ought really 'to consume his own smoke;' there is no good in emitting _smoke_ till you have made it into _fire_, -- which, in the metaphorical sense too, all smoke is capable of becoming!"
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baroque  Coke  Koch  Polk  Stoke  
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    ash  blood  cloud  dust  fire  
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    aerate  aerify  afterdamp  air  air-dry  
    verb-form
    smoked  smokes  smoking