fume

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas

   When I mixed the acid with the mystery substance toxic fumes were produced.

2. 2
   verb

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

   My shirt is wet due to my excessive fuming.

3. 3
   verb

   to be mad, angry, or furious

   They fumed for hours after losing the baseball game.

4. 4
   verb

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

   The exterminator wanted to fume my house to get rid of all the insects running around.

5. 5
   verb

   to emit a cloud of fine particles

   The beaker is fuming as we speak.

6. 6
   noun

   A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale.

   Don't stand around in there breathing the fumes while the adhesive cures.

7. 7
   noun

   A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.

   Lead fume is a greyish powder, mainly comprising lead sulfate.

8. 8
   noun

   Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.

   The Fumes of his Passion do as really intoxicate and confound his judging and discerning Faculty , as the Fumes of Drink discompose and stupify the Brain of a Man over - charged with it.

Etymology

From Middle English fume, from Old French fum (“smoke, steam, vapour”), from Latin fūmus (“vapour, smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós (“smoke”), from *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Doublet of thymus and thymos. More at dun, dusk, dust.