FUME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fume mean? 

• FUME (noun)
  The noun FUME has 1 sense:

1. a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas

  Familiarity information: FUME used as a noun is very rare.

• FUME (verb)
  The verb FUME has 4 senses:

1. be mad, angry, or furious

2. emit a cloud of fine particles

3. treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests

4. be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face

  Familiarity information: FUME used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

fume; smoke

Hypernyms ("fume" is a kind of...):

aerosol (a cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fume"):

gun smoke (smoke created by the firing of guns)

smother (a stifling cloud of smoke)

Derivation:

fume (emit a cloud of fine particles)

fumigate (treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests)

• FUME (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they fume    ... he / she / it fumes   
Past simple: fumed   
Past participle: fumed   
-ing form: fuming   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be mad, angry, or furious

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "fume" is one way to...):

experience; feel (undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

Sam and Sue fume
Sam and Sue fume over the results of the experiment

Sense 2

Meaning:

Emit a cloud of fine particles

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

fume; smoke

Context example:

The chimney was fuming

Hypernyms (to "fume" is one way to...):

emit; give off; give out (give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

fume (a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

fume; fumigate

Hypernyms (to "fume" is one way to...):

process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

fume; reek

Hypernyms (to "fume" is one way to...):

exudate; exude; ooze; ooze out; transude (release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

It may also be caused by infection or by breathing in secondhand tobacco smoke, chemical fumes, or other forms of air pollution.

(Chronic Bronchitis, NCI Dictionary)

A colorless, volatile and highly flammable, liquid inorganic compound with a characteristic, musty odor that emits toxic carbon monoxide fumes upon heating.

(Nickel Carbonyl, NCI Thesaurus)

A yellow to orange colored, crystalline, inorganic compound that forms toxic fumes of cadmium oxides when heated.

(Cadmium Sulfide, NCI Thesaurus)

An inorganic substance that contains the metallic element cadmium usually in its positive-2 valence state and forms toxic fumes of cadmium oxide when heated.

(Cadmium Compound, NCI Thesaurus)

A whitish, crystalline, inorganic compound that forms toxic fumes of cadmium oxides when heated.

(Cadmium Chloride, NCI Thesaurus)

A yellowish, oily, aromatic nitro-compound with an almond-like odor that emits toxic fumes of nitrogen oxides upon combustion.

(Nitrobenzene, NCI Thesaurus)

A yellow, liquid nitrosamine that rapidly degrades in the presence of light and emits toxic fumes of nitrogen oxides when heated to decomposition.

(Nitrosodipropylamine, NCI Thesaurus)

He stood for an instant fuming with rage and uncertain whether he should not renew his attack.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For I hold with the learned Scotus that thought is in very truth a thing, even as vapor or fumes, or many other substances which our gross bodily eyes are blind to.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A colorless, crystalline, solid aromatic amine that turns purple when exposed to air and emits toxic fumes when heated. p-Biphenylamine is used only in laboratory research to induce tumorigenesis.

(p-Biphenylamine, NCI Thesaurus)