Word: smoke Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English smoken, from Old English smocian (“to smoke, to emit smoke”), from Proto-West Germanic *smokōn, from Proto-Germanic *smukōną (“to smoke”), ablaut derivative of Proto-Germanic *smaukaną (“to smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg- (“to smoke”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian smookje (“to smoke”), West Frisian smoke (“to smoke”), Dutch smoken (“to smoke”), Low German smöken (“to smoke”), German Low German smoken (“to smoke”). Related also to Old English smēocan (“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), Bavarian schmuckelen (“to smell bad, reek”). Pronunciation: /sməʊk/, /smoʊk/, /sməʉk/, /smɐʉk/, /smok/ 1. To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette or cigar, burning material in a pipe, etc. Labels: transitive Example: He's smoking his pipe. Example: Her dad smoked various brands when he was younger. 2. To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke. Labels: intransitive Example: He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. Example: To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling. 3. To give off smoke. Labels: intransitive Example: My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs. Example: Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. 4. To give off smoke. Labels: intransitive 5. To give off smoke. Labels: intransitive Example: "Damp tobacco," said Cripps, eyeing Limpet offensively as he threw down the challenge, "smokes unevenly. You'll admit that to start with." Example: "Dry tobacco burns even, and therefore smokes cool." 6. To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke. Labels: transitive Example: You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours. 7. To dry or medicate by smoke. Labels: transitive Example: After opening one of the hives from the back, he smoked the bees to calm them and to drive the queen toward the front of the hive. 8. To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume. Labels: obsolete, transitive 9. To make unclear or blurry. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Smoke your bits of glass, Ye loyal Swine, or her transfiguration Will blind your wondering eyes. 10. To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: The horn section was really smokin' on that last tune. 11. To beat someone at something; to be very good at something. Labels: slang Example: We smoked them at rugby. Example: en, She's gotta do that song, she outright smokes when she hits the refrain! 12. To snuff out; to kill, especially with a gun. Labels: slang, transitive Example: He got smoked by the mob. Example: Ordnancemen stenciled bombs with “greetings” on behalf of friends and loved ones back home or slogans playing on beer and cigarette advertisements, like “To Muammar: For all you do, this bomb's for you” or “I'd fly 10,000 miles to smoke a camel.” 13. To thrash; to beat. Labels: obsolete, slang, transitive 14. To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu. Example: I alone / Smok'd his true person, talk'd with him. 15. To ridicule to the face; to mock. Labels: obsolete, slang, transitive 16. To burn; to be kindled; to rage. Example: The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man. 17. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion. Example: Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field. 18. To suffer severely; to be punished. Example: Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome. 19. To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise. Labels: US, slang, transitive 20. To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning. Labels: transitive