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In some senses, fume is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADV
inwardly, quietly
PREP
about/over
My dad spent all evening fuming over the parking ticket he received.
at
She was fuming at her brother for losing her favorite book.
PHRASES
be left fuming
After the airline cancelled her flight with no explanation, Sarah was left fuming for days.
sit/stand (there) fuming
She stood there fuming after her boss cancelled her day off without warning.
noun
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.
the fumes of new-shorn hay
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.
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.
In his execution of this mission, Mr Tinkler perhaps expressed that Mr Dorrit was in a raging fume.
Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
a show of fumes and fancies
The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
to smother him with fumes and eulogies
verb
To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints.
To apply or offer incense to.
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.
To emit fumes.
where the golden altar fumed
Young Chromis and Mnaſylus chanc'd to ſtray / Where (ſleeping in a cave) Silenus lay, / Whoſe conſtant cups fly fuming to his brain, / And always boil in each extended vein; / His truſty flaggon, full of potent juice, / Was hanging by, worn thin with age and uſe; [...]
To pass off in fumes or vapours.
whose parts are kept from fuming away, not only by their fixity[…]
To express or feel great anger.
He’s still fuming about the argument they had yesterday.
He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
Don't stand around in there breathing the fumes while the adhesive cures.
Wiktionarythe fumes of new-shorn hay
WiktionaryLead fume is a greyish powder, mainly comprising lead sulfate.
WiktionaryTyrian 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
Wiktionarywhere the golden altar fumed
WiktionaryYoung Chromis and Mnaſylus chanc'd to ſtray / Where (ſleeping in a cave) Silenus lay, / Whoſe conſtant cups fly fuming to his brain, / And always boil in each extended vein; / His truſty flaggon, full
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In some senses, fume is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.