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Fumed

//fjuːmd// adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of wood, treated with ammonia fumes to darken its colour and enhance its grain pattern. not-comparable

    "A customer interrupted her by coming in, in quest of an overmantel, but when Rita by her blandishments had sold a deplorable example in fumed oak, she was again beset with misgivings about letting that old fool get drunk with a dangerous ascent of the stairs to be faced."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of wood) darkened or colored by exposure to ammonia fumes wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of fume form-of, participle, past

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