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
Verb
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Marylanders settled back for a steaming celebration of America’s 194th birthday today.
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The French capital is in the midst of a heat wave — the day of the show was the city’s hottest ever June day, until Wednesday eclipsed it — and the model’s toes steamed inside the oblong footwear.
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Trump stormed out of a June 7 interview with current moderator Kristen Welker in Wisconsin.
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The Cavaliers won the 2015-2016 championship in a remarkable series in which Cleveland stormed back from a 3-1 deficit to win in seven games, a first in finals history.
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The long-term health effects of the fire and its smoke probably won’t be known unless researchers conduct a follow-up study, said Eisenman of UCLA.
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Without Shamea being able to take her anger out on Porsha directly, everyone can get the smoke.
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The possible flare of Marburg in Uganda will only add to the challenges of responding to the overwhelming Ebola outbreak raging in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Still, if someone argued otherwise, Smith and his ilk would rage in fury.
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Around the time a helicopter carrying a newlywed couple departed from their North Georgia wedding venue, the skies were potentially rainy and foggy with a 200-foot cloud ceiling, federal officials said in a preliminary safety report about the deadly crash.
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The Weather Prediction Center said the high heat may finally begin to abate from west to east this weekend, with upper temperature limits possibly restricted by clouds and thunderstorms.
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According to Smith, citizens of East Florida even burned the leaders behind the Declaration of Independence in effigy.
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For decades, oceans have acted as the planet’s main heat sink, absorbing 90% of the excess heat produced by humans burning fossil fuels.
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The miasma of truth and fiction can become dense.
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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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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 5 Jul. 2026.
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