fume

Definition

  • noun: smoke or gas that smells unpleasant
  • noun: a smoke, vapor, or gas especially when irritating or offensive
  • verb: to show or feel anger
  • verb: to expose to or treat with 'fumes'
  • usually plural
  • synonyms: exhalation, smoke, vapor

Examples

  • “They made these changes without even asking our opinion,” one employee 'fumed'.

  • automobile exhaust 'fumes'

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Attaboy, Toto. l only tell you for your own good. Cooped up here. Suffocate in summer, freeze to death in winter. Breathing fumes. And you earn chicken feed. Don't you like anything about it? Oh, it grows on you. Sometimes you listen... (..)
    1988 Cinema Paradiso