fume
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English fume, from Old French fum (“smoke, steam, vapour”), from Latin fūmus (“vapour, smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós (“smoke”), from *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Doublet of thymus and thymos. More at dun, dusk, dust.
Inflected forms:
form: fumes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fumes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fuming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fumed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fumed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale.
pos: noun
examples: Don't stand around in there breathing the fumes while the adhesive cures.
the fumes of new-shorn hay
gloss: A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.
pos: noun
examples: Lead fume is a greyish powder, mainly comprising lead sulfate.
gloss: Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.
pos: noun
examples: The Fumes of his Passion do as really intoxicate and confound his judging and discerning Faculty , as the Fumes of Drink discompose and stupify the Brain of a Man over - charged with it.
In his execution of this mission, Mr Tinkler perhaps expressed that Mr Dorrit was in a raging fume.
gloss: Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
pos: noun
examples: a show of fumes and fancies
gloss: The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
pos: noun
examples: to smother him with fumes and eulogies
gloss: A passionate person.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To apply or offer incense to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Tyrian garbs, / Neptunian Albion's high teſtaceous food [i.e., oysters], / And flavour'd Chian wines with incenſe fum'd / To ſlake Patrician thirſt: for theſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom.
gloss: To emit fumes.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: where the golden altar fumed
Young Chromis and Mnaſylus chanc'd to ſtray / Where (ſleeping in a cave) Silenus lay, / Whoſe conſtant cups fly fuming to his brain, / And always boil in each extended vein; / His truſty flaggon, full of potent juice, / Was hanging by, worn thin with age and uſe; [...]
gloss: To pass off in fumes or vapours.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: whose parts are kept from fuming away, not only by their fixity[…]
gloss: To express or feel great anger.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: He’s still fuming about the argument they had yesterday.
He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
Her mother did fret, and her father did fume.
His strong stand has made him a lightning rod for criticism by rail proponents, including some of his own friends. Herb Bridge […] is among Freeman's critics on the rail issue. "[…] I think he has an elitist attitude and doesn't want poor people in his mall," fumed Bridge, who operates a store in Freeman's mall.
"Whoever is doing this is not just showing immense disrespect to me as a teacher, but also to the whole Torah and to this whole class and school!" he fumed. "And to God!"
gloss: To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Keep his brain fuming.
Derived words: exhaust fume
fumacious
fume cupboard
fumed
fume date
fume hood
fumeless
fumelike
fumewort
fumish
fumivorous
fumulus
fumy
fuming sulfuric acid
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