1
as in to steam
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger
he silently fumed as his ex-girlfriend danced with her new beau
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2
as in to storm
to express one's anger usually violently
when she found out her driver's license was being suspended, she fumed, throwing papers across the room and shouting at the top of her lungs
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Recent Examples of fume
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
1 May 2026
Johnson and other Republican leaders soon faced a room of fuming members who do not typically cause headaches for leadership or hold up votes.
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Emily Brooks,
The Hill,
1 May 2026
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
Wearing a mask can further limit fume exposure.
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Timothy Dale,
Better Homes & Gardens,
26 Feb. 2026
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Verb
For years, Red Sox fans fumed over the Panda, a beloved Giant who morphed into an expensive New England disaster.
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Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
1 May 2026
Johnson and other Republican leaders soon faced a room of fuming members who do not typically cause headaches for leadership or hold up votes.
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Emily Brooks,
The Hill,
1 May 2026
Noun
Graduate students in tie-dye shirts worked under fume hoods; on the glass that protected them from chemicals, synthesis reactions were scribbled in black marker.
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Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
Wearing a mask can further limit fume exposure.
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Timothy Dale,
Better Homes & Gardens,
26 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fume
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When in doubt, stick to food that is cooked and served steaming hot.
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Enjoy a steaming plate of weekend-only biscuits and gravy.
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Michael Ovitz, the co-founder of CAA, stormed out of a deposition on June 1 after being asked about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Two years ago, Delva was forced to flee his neighborhood of Solino after gangs stormed in and razed much of it to the ground.
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Residents gathered Friday in Piute County as the Cottonwood Fire pushed closer, with flames visible in the distance and smoke settling across the valley, to hear updates and discuss emergency response plans, CNN affiliate KSTU reported.
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Mesa County Public Health advised residents to avoid outdoor activity when smoke is heavy and to wear an N95 mask or respirator if being outside is necessary.
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As the party raged on LACMA’s campus, hundreds of parade participants hurriedly prepared for their debuts in the corners of nearby streets and parking lots.
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Debate is raging all over the world about the place AI should have in schools, with some studies on US children suggesting that introducing generative AI into education can erode children's ability to develop cognitive and social skills.
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Poor caching quietly increases latency, cloud cost, battery usage and backend load at scale.
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Channel the optimism of a 2016 summer with short nails that look like clouds of cotton candy.
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Most of the smoke is coming from the Iron Fire in Utah, which has burned more than 21,000 acres.
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The world has known that adding heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests will warm the globe, said Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center on Cape Cod, who was not involved in the research.
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Up in the attic, a melty miasma smothers the thick winter coats, which hurt me to even look at.
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The series is a miasma of orphans, failsons, and fuckups, all tragic figures who turn to capitalism to heal them.
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Its foaming properties pull dust off your wheels and dissolve it, requiring a simple rinse afterward.
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The peroxide will foam up and then break down harmlessly into water rather than persisting in your soil.
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“Fume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fume. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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