Meaning

A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale..

Definitions by Sense

1. A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale.
2. A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.
3. Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.
4. Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
5. The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
6. (obsolete) A passionate person.
7. (transitive) To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints.
8. (transitive) To apply or offer incense to.

Example Sentences

Don't stand around in there breathing the fumes while the adhesive cures.

the fumes of new-shorn hay

Lead fume is a greyish powder, mainly comprising lead sulfate.

The Fumes of his Passion do as really intoxicate and confound his judging and discerning Faculty , as the Fumes of Drink discompose and stupify the Brain of a Man over - charged with it.

In his execution of this mission, Mr Tinkler perhaps expressed that Mr Dorrit was in a raging fume.

a show of fumes and fancies

to smother him with fumes and eulogies

Tyrian garbs, / Neptunian Albion's high teſtaceous food [i.e., oysters], / And flavour'd Chian wines with incenſe fum'd / To ſlake Patrician thirſt: for theſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom.

Word Forms

• fumes
• fuming
• fumed

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