Definitions for fumes

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fumes fume

Spelling: [fyoom]

IPA: /fyum/

Fumes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in fumes (efmsu).

Definitions for fumes

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:

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 fumes

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

Examples for fumes

The fumes of the wine were mounting steadily to addle his indifferent brains.

fumes filled the arena, engines revved, and the beastly vehicles made their way out on to the spotlight.

The air was noisome with dead tobacco smoke and the fumes of stale beer.

To create that all-important alcohol content, the fumes are circulated out of the still into condensers.

The stench of the backed-up toilets combines with the fumes of garbage fermenting in the midday sun.

She thrives on being the center of attention and fumes when anyone else steals her thunder.

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But Thrasydaeus was laid asleep the while where the fumes of wine had overpowered him.

But inhale the fumes of Republican rhetoric more deeply, and a more mind-blowing reality comes into focus.

For that reason, as well as because of the fumes in his brain, he did not hear the coming of the automobile.