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fume

[fyoom]

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noun

Often, fumes. any smokelike or vaporous exhalation from matter or substances, especially of an odorous or harmful nature: tobacco fumes; noxious fumes of carbon monoxide.

an irritable or angry mood: He has been in a fume ever since the contract fell through.

verb (used with object)

to emit or exhale, as fumes or vapor: giant stacks fuming their sooty smoke.

to treat with or expose to fumes.

to show fretful irritation or anger: She always fumes when the mail is late.

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verb (used without object)

to rise, or pass off, as fumes: smoke fuming from an ashtray.

to emit fumes: The leaky pipe fumed alarmingly.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Old French fum < Latin fūmus smoke, steam, fume

Related forms

fume·less, adjective

fume·like, adjective

fum·er, noun

fum·ing·ly, adverb

un·fum·ing, adjective

Synonyms
2. rage, fury, agitation, storm. 5. chafe, fret.

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adjective French.

smoked.

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World English Dictionary

fume (fjuːm)

—vb
1.	(intr) to be overcome with anger or fury; rage
2.	to give off (fumes) or (of fumes) to be given off, esp during a chemical reaction
3.	(tr) to subject to or treat with fumes; fumigate

—n
4.	(often plural) a pungent or toxic vapour
5.	a sharp or pungent odour
6.	a condition of anger

[C14: from Old French fum, from Latin fūmus smoke, vapour]

'fumeless

—*adj*

'fumelike

—*adj*

'fumer

—n

'fumingly

—*adv*

'fumy

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

fume

late 14c., from O.Fr. fum "smoke, steam, vapor," from L. fumus "smoke" (v.), from PIE *dhumo- (cf. Skt. dhumah, O.C.S. dymu, Lith. dumai, O.Prus. dumis "smoke," M.Ir. dumacha "fog," Gk. thymos "spirit, mind, soul"). The verb is first recorded c.1400, from O.Fr. fumer, from L. fumare "to smoke, steam;"

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figurative sense of "show anger" is first recorded 1520s. Related: Fumed; fuming.

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