FUME


Meaning of FUME in English

n. 25B6; noun

a fire giving off toxic fumes : SMOKE, vapour, gas, effluvium; exhaust; pollution.

stale wine fumes : SMELL, odour, stink, reek, stench; Brit. informal pong, niff; Scottish informal guff; N. Amer. informal funk; poetic/literary miasma.

25B6; verb

fragments of lava were fuming and sizzling : EMIT SMOKE, emit gas, smoke; archaic reek.

Ella was still fuming at his arrogance : BE FURIOUS, be enraged, be very angry, seethe, be livid, be incensed, boil, be beside oneself, spit; rage, rant and rave; informal be hot under the collar, foam at the mouth, see red.

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