smoke

/sməʊk/
noun 6verb 5name 2

Collocations

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(noun.)

ADJ

dense, thick | black, blue, grey, etc. | billowing | acrid, choking, stale | cigar, cigarette, pipe, tobacco

QUANT

cloud, column, haze, pall, plume, puff, spiral, wisp

A thick column of smoke rose from the burning building as firefighters arrived.

VERB + SMOKE

belch (out), blow, emit

The factory chimney was emitting thick smoke all day yesterday.

exhale | inhale

go up in

My savings went up in smoke when the restaurant business failed.

be wreathed in

The old factory was wreathed in thick industrial smoke for decades.

SMOKE + VERB

belch, billow, curl, drift, fill, pour, rise from/into

Thick smoke poured from the kitchen when she forgot about the toast.

hang

Thick smoke hung in the air long after the bonfire was extinguished.

clear

After the fire ended, smoke cleared from the building and firefighters entered to search for survivors.

SMOKE + NOUN

plume, ring

A thick smoke plume rose from the factory chimney into the gray sky.

signal | bomb | alarm, detector | emission | inhalation

PHRASES

full of smoke, thick with smoke

After the fire was extinguished, the entire building remained full of smoke for hours.

2

(verb.) cigarette/pipe, etc.

ADV

heavily

My grandfather smoked heavily for forty years before he finally quit.

3

(verb.) meat/fish/cheese

ADV

heavily

lightly

The fish was lightly smoked over oak wood to add a delicate flavor.

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