Definitions for fume

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Spelling: [fyoom]

IPA: /fyum/

Fume is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in fume (efmu).

Definitions for fume

noun

1. Often, fumes. any smokelike or vaporous exhalation from matter or substances, especially of an odorous or harmful nature:
2. an irritable or angry mood:

adjective

1. of food, cured or flavored by exposure to smoke; smoked.

verb (used with object)

1. to emit or exhale, as fumes or vapor:
2. to treat with or expose to fumes.
3. to show fretful irritation or anger:

verb (used without object)

1. to rise, or pass off, as fumes:
2. to emit fumes:

Origin of fume

1350-1400; Middle English Old French fum Latin fūmus smoke, steam, fume

Examples for fume

Men fret and fuss and fume, and are for ever in haste; the toad eyes them with contempt.

Cynthia may fret and fume and stamp, but willy-nilly I shall carry her away.

He was obviously letting off the fume of long-unuttered disapprovals.

He sat there frowning and biting his lip, and suddenly he began to fume and fret.

We glare and fume and could gladly see them all maced in sunder with battle-axes.

She put Wyvis into a fume about his honor; and so he asked me to marry him.

They could only stand with lowered heads and fume and rumble.

Fiorsen was standing at the window in a fume of cigarette smoke.

How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe And swear not Addison himself was safe.

Dumoulin was hot-blooded, noisy, unmethodical, always in a state of fuss and fume!