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
Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026
Residents fume about the impact on prices.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 10 Feb. 2026
Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026
Vinegar is a fast, fume-free cleaner that cuts grease, smudges, and grime before guests arrive.
—Ashlyn Needham, The Spruce, 4 Jan. 2026
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Verb
At the same time, some residents are fuming that, despite the undergrounding work, most of the town’s neighborhoods still will have overhead telecommunications lines.
—Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026
Residents fume about the impact on prices.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 10 Feb. 2026
Noun
By replacing combustion engine trucks, the use of BEVs drastically reduces toxic fume production, but also heat buildup underground.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026
Vinegar is a fast, fume-free cleaner that cuts grease, smudges, and grime before guests arrive.
—Ashlyn Needham, The Spruce, 4 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fume
Verb
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But portioning the layered dish into individual servings before cooking and steaming it on the stovetop?—
Gretchen McKay,
Boston Herald,
11 Mar. 2026
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But the different pockets and components formed by the bone structure help steam the meat to keep it juicy.—
Stella Fong,
Outside,
10 Mar. 2026
Verb
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While many families are discussing plans to move out of the state should the legislative proposals pass, others are organizing letter-writing campaigns, submitting testimony and gathering support to storm the Capitol in opposition.—
Kaitlin McCallum,
Hartford Courant,
9 Mar. 2026
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With less than five seconds remaining in regulation, King and teammate George Natsvlishvili stormed up the court in hopes of a buzzer-beating shot.—
Tom Carothers,
Twin Cities,
8 Mar. 2026
Noun
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How to Plan a Trip Trying to follow the original Route 66 today can feel a bit like chasing smoke.—
Zoey Goto,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2026
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Roads in the Lebanese capital were choked with evacuating traffic as smoke rose over the city’s southern districts.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The Iran war rages on and continues to rattle global markets, while Iran has picked a new supreme leader.—
Angus Whitley,
Bloomberg,
8 Mar. 2026
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On Saturday, a fire raged at a three-story, hillside home in Laurel Canyon, where over 100 firefighters extinguished the blaze in the main house, the exterior of an adjacent building and surrounding vegetation in one hour and 13 minutes, LAFD said in a news release.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
8 Mar. 2026
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The Dublin data center, which can run both cloud and AI workloads, has a total capacity of about 110 megawatts.—
April Roach,Gaelle Legrand,
CNBC,
11 Mar. 2026
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Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Many works of Georges Méliès are even believed to have been burned as the original negatives, as the nitrate film stock is incredibly fragile and inflammable.—
Munis Raza,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Mar. 2026
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Vlad returns to find the protagonist and John trapped in the burning cabin and pulls them out.—
Meg Walters,
Glamour,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Disease is caused by miasma, insufficient beef tallow, corn syrup, the evil eye.—
Alexandra Petri,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2026
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With the exception of an eerie choral miasma that floats in the background, everything tonal is percussive and everything percussive is tonal, leaving you buffeted on all sides by soft, colorful wallops, as though suspended in a tornado of beanbags.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
4 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Holding a cup in the air the man aims a hot stream of foaming milk into a stainless steel tumbler sitting inside a steel davara that rests on the counter.—
Kalpana Mohan,
Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2026
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Enjoy your meal at twilight, gazing down at the foaming riptides of the Atlantic.—
Jeannette Cooperman,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Fume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fume. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.
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