EXHAUST FUMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exhaust fumes mean? 

• EXHAUST FUMES (noun)
  The noun EXHAUST FUMES has 1 sense:

1. gases ejected from an engine as waste products

  Familiarity information: EXHAUST FUMES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXHAUST FUMES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gases ejected from an engine as waste products

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

exhaust; exhaust fumes; fumes

Hypernyms ("exhaust fumes" is a kind of...):

waste; waste material; waste matter; waste product (any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted)

gas (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)

 Context examples 

Airway Questionnaire 20 (AQ20) Do you get chest problems when you come into contact with strong smells, exhaust fumes, cigarette smoke, perfume etc?

(AQ20 - Get Chest Problems When Contact With Strong Smells, NCI Thesaurus)

They also identified the fingerprints left behind by common chemotherapy drugs, some dietary chemicals and some present in diesel exhaust fumes.

(‘Fingerprint database’ could help scientists to identify new cancer culprits, University of Cambridge)