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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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... but here his attention was directed to the red-herring by Snarleyyow, who raised his head and snuffed at its fumes. Among other disqualifications of the animal, be it observed that he had no nose except for a red-herring, or a post by the way-side. Mr Vanslyperken discontinued his orders, took his hand out of ...

— Snarley-yow - or The Dog Fiend • Frederick Marryat

... badly damaged. An enormous hole, three feet by nine feet, gaped in her side. A shell had wrecked Captain Luce's cabin, giving off fumes such as rendered unconscious several men who rushed in to put out the fire. The vessel had escaped any serious outbreak, however, and had suffered only four slight casualties. Warm tributes were paid by the captain to the cool ...

— World's War Events, Vol. I • Various

... Vossius's[30] fine library, enriched with many treasures from the Queen of Sweden's, which this versatile genius scrupled not to pillage without confession or apology. During this century our great reasoners and philosophers began to be in motion; and, like the fumes of tobacco, which drive the concealed and clotted insects from the interior to the extremity of the leaves, the infectious particles of the BIBLIOMANIA set a thousand busy brains a-thinking, and produced ten thousand capricious works, which, over-shadowed by the ...

— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin

... occupied the center of the room, and around it a narrow space had been left for the dancers. The air was suffocating to white lungs, what with human emanations combined with the thick fumes of kinnikinic. ...

— The Fur Bringers - A Story of the Canadian Northwest • Hulbert Footner

... smallish gray-haired man shuffled out through the doorway on the right of the window and scurried across the opening into which the crane had swung its load. As he unbent his emaciated body to face the visitor his breath was heavy with the fumes ...

— Bloom of Cactus • Robert Ames Bennet

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