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Fumes

noun

Gases ejected from an engine as waste products. Synonyms: exhaust, exhaust fumes.

Fume

noun

A cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas. Synonym: smoke.

verb

(past & past part. fumed; pres. part. fuming)

Be mad, angry, or furious.

Emit a cloud of fine particles. Synonym: smoke.

Treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests. Synonym: fumigate.

Be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face. Synonym: reek.

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"Fumes" Quotes from Famous Books

... hole in his head to let out fumes, which (says Gordonius) "will, without doubt, do much good." ...

— The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby • Charles Kingsley

... ready a glass fruit jar holding not more than a quart. Ignite the phosphorus with a hot wire and invert the jar over it, pushing the mouth below the surface of the water. The phosphorus uniting with the oxygen fills the jar with white fumes of phosphoric oxide. These soon dissolve in the water, leaving a clear gas above. This is nitrogen. Place a cardboard under the mouth of the jar and turn it right side up, leaving in the water and keeping the top covered. Light a splinter and, slipping the cover ...

— Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools • Francis M. Walters, A.M.

... ten years old. Then her father died. He had been a house-painter, but in early youth he had been led into intemperance by some wild companions. He was often not in a fit state to go to work, and one day the fumes of the beer he had drunk overpowered him as he sat in the strong sunlight on his scaffolding. In the hospital he called upon God to relieve him of his suffering; then the Brethren said, "You never thought of God before. Be patient, your health is coming back; ...

— Esther Waters • George Moore

... of the fumes, but there was nothing else I could do. The stuff was shallavan, outlawed on every planet in the Terran Empire and every halfway decent ...

— The Door Through Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley

... The English middle-class imbibe port and sherry; and with these strong potations their ideas become obfuscated. Their character has no liveliness; amusement is not one of their wants; they sit at home after dinner and doze away the fumes of their beverage in the dulness of domesticity. If the English aristocracy are more vivacious and cosmopolitan, it is thanks to the wines of France, which it is the mode with them to prefer; but still, like ...

— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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