Fume
[fjuːm] or [fjum]
Definition
(verb.) be mad, angry, or furious.
(verb.) emit a cloud of fine particles; 'The chimney was fuming'.
Typist: Patricia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.
(n.) Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion.
(n.) Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
(n.) The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
(n.) To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.
(n.) To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
(n.) To pass off in fumes or vapors.
(n.) To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.
(v. t.) To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room.
(v. t.) To praise inordinately; to flatter.
(v. t.) To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.
Checker: Nathan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Smoke, vapor, steam, exhalation, effluvium, reek.
v. n. [1]. Smoke, reek, emit vapor, throw off vapor.[2]. Rage, rave, fret, bluster, storm, chafe, flare up, be in a passion, be in a rage, get mad, fly off at a tangent.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Vapor, chafe, frown
ANT:Acquiesce, smile
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Definition
n. smoke or vapour: any volatile matter: heat of mind rage a passionate person: anything unsubstantial vain conceit.—v.i. to smoke: to throw off vapour: to be in a rage: to offer incense to.—n. Fum′atory a place for smoking or fumigation.—adjs. Fū′mid smoky; Fumif′erous producing fumes.—n. Fumos′ity quality of being fumous: (pl.) the fumes arising from over eating or drinking.—adjs. Fum′ous Fumose′ Fum′y producing fumes.
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Examples
- Very good, I thought; you may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Fume not, admonished my companion; you will see far worse than that if you live even a month among the First Born. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The smoke, the fume, the fret of his demeanour was inexpressible, but it was a fury incapable of producing a deed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Come, come now, uncle, expostulated Shirley, do not begin to fret and fume, or we shall make no sense of the business. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This apartment is always in a fume of smoke and liberally sprinkled with beer. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In the electric shop, motor-driven blowers carry fumes and dust away from the worker and bring fresh air in. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The daguerreotype was made on a thin sheet of copper, silver plated on one side, polished to a high degree of brilliancy, and made sensitive by exposing it to the fumes of iodine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Otherwise the fumes of powder could not have been blown so rapidly through the house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A draught from above brought the fumes of smoke to our nostrils. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- That let all the fumes and chemicals out and overcame the firemen; and there was the devil to pay. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Add that the water, being heated and rarefied by the subterraneous fires, may emit fumes, blasts, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Sir Leicester has a misgiving that there may be a hidden Wat Tylerish meaning in this expression, and fumes a little. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But here have I been stewing and fuming in this jolly old crib till I have had the horrors falling on me as thick as hail. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The two men stood looking at one another in silence for quite a minute, Crispin cool and composed, the Greek fuming with anger. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- At length, Sir, cried I, in a fuming rage, Pray, just peruse, at least, a single page. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Allow me, Mr. Hawley, said the chairman; and Mr. Hawley, still fuming, bowed half impatiently, and sat down with his hands thrust deep in his pockets. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She lay fuming in the vapours. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It had not settled down into calm water again full two hours after he had been seen fuming away on the horizon at the top of the steps. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He writhed, fumed, shifted his seat, and the beating of his heart was almost audible. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He had fumed inwardly during the feast, but when the flurry was over and he strolled home after seeing Scott off, a milder mood came over him. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He quelled, he kept down when he could; and when he could not, he fumed like a bottled storm. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It's a false note, Miss Sharp said with a laugh; and Rawdon Crawley fumed with rage and mortification. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I fretted and fumed all next day, and raised a great disturbance,' rejoined the old gentleman. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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