Skip to definition.
Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps


Verb: fume  fyoom
  1. Be mad, angry, or furious
     
  2. Emit a cloud of fine particles
    "The chimney was fuming";
    - smoke
     
  3. Treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests
    - fumigate, smoke
     
  4. Be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face
    - reek
Noun: fume  fyoom
  1. A cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
    - smoke

Derived forms: fumed, fuming, fumes

Type of: aerosol, emit, experience, exudate, exude, feel, give off, give out, ooze, ooze out, process, transude, treat

Encyclopedia: Fume