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Fume
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- 1 A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale.
"Don't stand around in there breathing the fumes while the adhesive cures."
- 2 a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas wordnet
- 3 A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.
"Lead fume is a greyish powder, mainly comprising lead sulfate."
- 4 Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.
"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."
- 5 Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
"a show of fumes and fancies"
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- 6 The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
"to smother him with fumes and eulogies"
- 7 A passionate person. obsolete
- 1 To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints. transitive
- 2 be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face wordnet
- 3 To apply or offer incense to. transitive
"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."
- 4 be mad, angry, or furious wordnet
- 5 To emit fumes. intransitive
"where the golden altar fumed"
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- 6 treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests wordnet
- 7 To pass off in fumes or vapours. intransitive
"whose parts are kept from fuming away, not only by their fixity[…]"
- 8 emit a cloud of fine particles wordnet
- 9 To express or feel great anger. figuratively
"He’s still fuming about the argument they had yesterday."
- 10 To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied. figuratively, intransitive
"Keep his brain fuming."
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.
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.
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