| 单词 | fume |
| 释义 | fume (once / 832 pages) 1nv 2v 3v To fume is to feel or express great anger. You would fume if your teacher accused you of cheating when you didn't. As a verb, fume is usually used figuratively to mean "to feel very angry," whereas as a noun, it is used more as its Latin root fumus "smoke, steam, vapor." A strong-smelling gas, smoke or vapor is also called a fume. In cartoons, when a character is fuming, it is often drawn with fumes coming out of its ears. You may fume about the inconsiderate person who sits in the car with the engine running, spewing clouds of exhaust fumes. WORD FAMILYfume: fumed, fumes, fumigate, fuming+/fumigate: fumigated, fumigates, fumigating, fumigation, fumigator/fumigation: fumigations/fumigator: fumigators USAGE EXAMPLESListening from another room in the team’s football building, players fumed. Seattle Times(Dec 26, 2016) They also said their supervisors would often wait outside while bleach fumes filled the room. The Guardian(Dec 22, 2016) Down echoing hallways are labs packed with fume hoods and high-tech machines sprouting tubes and wires. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) 1 1n a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas Syn|Hypo|Hyper smoke gun smoke smoke created by the firing of guns smothera stifling cloud of smoke aerosol a cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas 2v emit a cloud of fine particles The chimney was fuming Syn|Hyper smoke emit, give off, give out give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc. 3v treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests 2Syn|Hyper fumigate process, treat subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition v be mad, angry, or furious 3Hyper experience, feel undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind v be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face Syn|Hyper reek exudate, exude, ooze, ooze out, transude release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities |
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