FUME


Meaning of FUME in English

fume /fjuːm/ BrE AmE verb

[ Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: French ; Origin: fumer , from Latin fumus 'smoke' ]

1 . [intransitive and transitive] to be angry about something

fume at/over/about

She sat in the car, silently fuming about what he’d said.

‘You’ve no right to be here,’ he fumed.

2 . [intransitive] to give off smoke or gases

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.