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Fumes

noun
1.
Gases ejected from an engine as waste products.  Synonyms: exhaust, exhaust fumes.


Fume

noun
1.
A cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas.  Synonym: smoke.
verb
(past & past part. fumed; pres. part. fuming)
1.
Be mad, angry, or furious.
2.
Emit a cloud of fine particles.  Synonym: smoke.
3.
Treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests.  Synonym: fumigate.
4.
Be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face.  Synonym: reek.



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"Fumes" Quotes from Famous Books



... till the fumes pass over; and may not falter nor break, till the priest has caught the words that mar or make a deme or ...
— American Poetry, 1922 - A Miscellany • Edna St. Vincent Millay
... the furnaces. This spot, from its contiguity to the works, has been selected as the site of a village for the accommodation of the numerous labourers and their families. It is therefore to be hoped that sulphur fumes are not as injurious to animal as they evidently are to vegetable life. As we drew nearer to the shore we could distinguish Madame Cousino's house, in the midst of a park on the summit of a hill, and surrounded on all sides by beautiful gardens. Every prominent ...
— A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' • Annie Allnut Brassey
... high, looking towards the heavens, and uttering barbarous and dissonant words."[21]—Sir Hans Sloan tells us, also, that the Indians employ tobacco in all their enchantments, sorceries, and fortune-tellings; that their priests intoxicate themselves with the fumes, and in their ecstacies give forth ...
— The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 • Various
... for an hour or more, till at last the fumes of his untutored imagination actually drowned his reason in a spiritual drunkenness. Picture after picture rose and unrolled itself before his mind's eye. He saw himself as President addressing the Volksraad, ...
— Jess • H. Rider Haggard
... for days, and I inhaled the rank tobacco-fumes through the old pipe gratefully. I was smoking, with an Indian, and that meant what it has always meant. A black cloud seemed to have been lifted from my mind. And I ...
— Jacqueline of Golden River • H. M. Egbert


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