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[ US /ˈfjum/ ]
[ UK /fjˈuːm/ ]
VERB
  1. be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face
  2. treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests
  3. be mad, angry, or furious
  4. emit a cloud of fine particles
    The chimney was fuming
NOUN
  1. a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas

How To Use fume In A Sentence

  • If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
  • There are drifts of feverfew, clouds of philadelphus, grasses whispering in the breeze, and everywhere the perfume of 1,000 blossoms keeping the countryside alive in the heart of London.
  • The "fruitily perfumed pineapple weed" that came to Britain from Oregon in the late 19th century and then began to spread throughout the countryside, Mr. Mabey says, "exactly tracked the adoption of the treaded motor tyre, to which its ribbed seeds clung" as if the treads were the soles of climbing boots. Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling
  • He gnashed his teeth together and fumed silently.
  • So asking them to use mild soaps and weaning them away from perfumes and deodorants is our primary task,’ he said.
  • Exhaust fumes from the Apache engines are also cooled as they emerge to make it difficult for heat-seeking missiles to seek and destroy the aircraft.
  • Bond No.9, the perfumer known for naming their scents after various New York neighborhoods, is about to get high...lined. Now You Can Smell Like The High Line!
  • Objective : To observe the effects of cooking oil fume ( COF ) on cellular immunity of rats.
  • At this point, however, the quartet was wandering in a perfumed garden of psychedelic modishness, and all the better for it.
  • Exhaust fumes made him drowsy and brought on a headache.
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