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Fume

Fume Meaning & Definition
Fume Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fume?

[n] a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
[v] be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face
[v] be mad, angry, or furious
[v] treat with fumes, expose to fumes, esp. with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests
[v] emit fumes

Synonyms | Synonyms for Fume: fumigate | reek | smoke | smoke

Related Terms | Find terms related to Fume: achromatize | ado | aerate | aerify | afterdamp | agitation | anhydrate | aroma | ash | ashes | atomize | be livid | be pissed | blackdamp | blanch | blast-freeze | bleach | blow | blow a gasket | blow up | bluster | bobbery | boil | boil over | boiling | brand | brawl | breath | breathe out | brine | bristle | broil | brouhaha | browned off | burn | bustle | cacophony | calx | carbon | carbonate | carry on | chafe | chaos | charcoal | chlorinate | chokedamp | churn | cinder | clinker | cloud | coal | coke | commotion | conturbation | cure | damp | decolor | decolorize | definite odor | dehydrate | desiccate | detectable odor | dim | discolor | discomposure | disorder | disquiet | disquietude | distill | disturbance | drain | drain of color | dross | dry | dry-cure | dry-salt | dudgeon | dull | ebullience | ebullition | eddy | effervescence | effluvium | emanation | embalm | embroilment | emit | essence | etherify | etherize | etiolate | evacuate | evaporate | excitement | exhalation | exhale | exhaust | expire | explode | fade | fanaticism | feery-fary | ferment | fermentation | fetid air | fever | feverishness | fidgets | firedamp | flap | flare up | flatus | flavor | flip out | fluid | fluidize | flurry | fluster | flutteration | foam | foment | fomentation | foofaraw | fractionate | fragrance | freeze | freeze-dry | frenzy | fret | fumes | fumigate | furor | furore | fury | fuss | gas | gasify | give off | give out | give vent to | go on | have a conniption | high dudgeon | hubbub | huff | hurly-burly | hurry | hurry-scurry | hydrogenate | inquietude | irradiate | jerk | jitters | jumpiness | kipper | lava | let out | maelstrom | malaise | malaria | marinade | marinate | mephitis | miasma | miff | moil | mummify | nerviness | nervosity | nervousness | odor | open the floodgates | open the sluices | oxygenate | pale | pandemonium | passion | pell-mell | perfume | peroxide | perturbation | pet | pickle | pique | pissed off | pollution | preservatize | puff | puff of smoke | quick-freeze | racket | rage | raise Cain | raise hell | raise the devil | raise the roof | rant | rant and rave | rave | redolence | reek | refrigerate | restlessness | roil | rout | row | ruckus | ruffle | rumpus | salt | savor | scent | scoria | season | seethe | seething | send out | simmer | sizzle | slag | smell | smog | smoke | smoke-cure | smolder | smoulder | smudge | smut | soot | spoor | spray | steam | stench | stew | stink | stir | storm | storminess | stuff | sublimate | sublime | subtle odor | sullage | sweat | swirl | swirling | swivet | take on | tarnish | tempestuousness | throw a fit | throw off | tiff | tizzy | to-do | tone down | trace | trail | trepidation | trepidity | tumult | tumultuation | tumultuousness | turbidity | turbulence | turmoil | twitter | unease | unrest | uproar | upset | vapor | vaporize | volatile | volatilize | vortex | wash out | water vapor | whiff | whirl | whiten | wildness | yeastiness | zeal | zealousness

See Also | aerosol | emit | experience | exudate | exude | feel | give off | give out | gun smoke | ooze | ooze out | process | smother | transude | treat

Fume In Webster's Dictionary

\Fume\ (f[=u]m), n. [L. fumus; akin to Skr. dh[=u]ma smoke, dh[=u] to shake, fan a flame, cf. Gr. qy`ein to sacrifice, storm, rage, qy`mon, qy`mos, thyme, and perh. to E. dust: cf. OF. fum smoke, F. fum['e]e. Cf. {Dust}, n., {Femerell}, {Thyme}.] 1. Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco. The fumes of new shorn hay. --T. Warton. The fumes of undigested wine. --Dryden. 2. Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion. --South. 3. Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination. A show of fumes and fancies. --Bacon. 4. The incense of praise; inordinate flattery. To smother him with fumes and eulogies. --Burton. {In a fume}, in ill temper, esp. from impatience.
\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. While her mother did fret, and her father did fume. --Sir W. Scott. {To tame away}, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes.
\Fume\, v. t. 1. To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room. She fumed the temple with an odorous flame. --Dryden. 2. To praise inordinately; to flatter. They demi-deify and fume him so. --Cowper. 3. To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor. The heat will fume away most of the scent. --Montimer. How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain! --Young.
\Fume\, n. (Metal.) Solid material deposited by condensation of fumes; as, lead fume (a grayish powder chiefly lead sulphate).

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