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fume
(fyo͞om)n.
1. Vapor, gas, or smoke, especially if irritating, harmful, or strong.
2. A strong or acrid odor.
3. A state of resentment or vexation.
v. fumed, fum·ing, fumes
v.tr.
1. To subject to or treat with fumes.
2. To give off in or as if in fumes.
v.intr.
1. To emit fumes.
2. To rise in fumes.
3. To feel or show resentment or vexation.
[Middle English, from Old French fum, from Latin fūmus.]
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Noun | 1. | fumes - gases ejected from an engine as waste products waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product - any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers" gas - a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely |
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výpary
røg
kaasut
isparavanja
煙霧
연기
ångor
ควันพิษ
khói
fumes
pl → Dämpfe pl; (of car) → Abgase pl; petrol (Brit) or gas (US) fumes → Benzindämpfe pl; to run on fumes (fig inf) → auf dem Zahnfleisch gehen (inf)
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fumes
→ أَبْخِرَة výpary røg Abgase αναθυμιάσεις gases kaasut émanations isparavanja esalazioni 煙霧 연기 dampen røyk opary fumaça, gases испарения ångor ควันพิษ duman khói 烟雾Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
fumes
n., pl. vapores.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
fumes
npl humo (frec. pl), vapores mplEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.