smoking

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The act or habit of breathing in the smoke from cigarettes, cigars, or pipes.

   Smoking is banned in all restaurants and bars here.

2. 2
   adj

   Giving off smoke.

   Firefighters searched through the smoking ruins of the house.

From Middle English smokynge, smokiende, from Old English smociende (“smoking”), from Proto-Germanic *smukōndz (“emitting smoke, smoking”), equivalent to smoke + -ing.

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