Fuming
[fjumiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fume
(a.) Producing fumes, or vapors.
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Examples
- 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.
Typist: Louis