fume meaning
[ fju:m ] Pronunciation: "fume" in a sentence
Verb: fume fyoom
- Be mad, angry, or furious
- Emit a cloud of fine particles
"The chimney was fuming"
- smoke - Treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests
- fumigate - Be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face
- reek
- A cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
- smoke
Derived forms: fumed, fuming, fumes
Type of: aerosol, emit, experience, exudate, exude, feel, give off, give out, ooze, ooze out, process, transude, treat
Encyclopedia: Fume
Examples
More: Next- the burnt heaps of wood were still fuming.
- the fumes had power enough to poison him on the spot.
- they are not affected by poisonous fumes or gases.
- he fumes if i'm not there when the phone rings.
- he fumed and fretted and did not know what was the matter.