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–noun

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

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

–verb (used with object)

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

4.	to treat with or expose to fumes.

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

–verb (used without object)

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

7.	to emit fumes: The leaky pipe fumed alarmingly.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < OF fum < L fūmus smoke, steam, fume

]

—Related forms

fumeless, adjective

fumelike, adjective

fumer, noun

fum·ing·ly, adverb

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

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fume Audio Help (fyōōm) Pronunciation Key
n.

Vapor, gas, or smoke, especially if irritating, harmful, or strong.
A strong or acrid odor.
A state of resentment or vexation.

v. fumed, fum·ing, fumes

v. tr.

To subject to or treat with fumes.
To give off in or as if in fumes.

v. intr.

To emit fumes.
To rise in fumes.
To feel or show resentment or vexation.

[Middle English, from Old French fum, from Latin fūmus.]

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Fuming

Fume\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fumed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fuming.] [Cf. F. fumer, L. fumare to smoke. See Fume, n.]

1. To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.

Where the golden altar fumed. --Milton.

Silenus lay, Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain. --Roscommon.

2. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.

Keep his brain fuming. --Shak.

3. To pass off in fumes or vapors.

Their parts pre kept from fuming away by their fixity. --Cheyne.

4. To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.

He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. --Dryden.