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
Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2025
Some travelers may also want to ask for rooms away from the pool or parking lot to avoid fumes.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 15 May 2025
Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025
Critics have also fumed about extravagant spending by government officials.
—Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 4 May 2025
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Verb
Crews from the city of Escondido found no abnormal readings indicating toxic fumes and air-quality monitoring did not indicate any health risks.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2025
Some travelers may also want to ask for rooms away from the pool or parking lot to avoid fumes.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 15 May 2025
Noun
Theater workers — who, like most service employees, have been wearily dealing with increasing amounts of customer incivility since the pandemic — have been fuming.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025
Critics have also fumed about extravagant spending by government officials.
—Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 4 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fume
Verb
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The situation was on the minds of many who cheered when the Ford steamed from its pier in Norfolk, with tugboats hugging the carrier's hull and sailors lining the sprawling deck in their dress-white uniforms.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
25 June 2025
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History trickled into the bitterness between the two sides and left Roberts still steaming even after the Dodgers’ 8-6 win.—
Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
18 June 2025
Verb
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MacDonough also advised Chief Justice John Roberts during both of Trump’s Senate impeachment trials, including the one that came in response to rioters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.—
Sudiksha Kochi,
USA Today,
27 June 2025
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Jake Paul, ahead of his next boxing match this Saturday, got into a verbal sparring match with host Piers Morgan on Thursday and stormed out of his virtual interview.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
26 June 2025
Noun
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As plumes of thick smoke rose over Tehran, Israel was attacked with yet another barrage of Iranian missiles and drones.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
23 June 2025
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If each particle of light could leave a smoke trail in its wake, a right-handed screw of smoke would emerge from one prism and a left-handed screw from another.—
Zack Savitsky,
Wired News,
22 June 2025
Verb
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The battle over Elizabeth Street Garden has raged on for more than a decade.—
Randy Mastro,
New York Daily News,
24 June 2025
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Picture a wildfire raging across a forested mountainside.—
Ben Livneh,
The Conversation,
23 June 2025
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Even so, the skies over Central Florida will be busy with more than just rain clouds this week.—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 June 2025
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This mix of spending discipline and sustainable cloud growth should enable Oracle to post accelerating earnings growth starting in 2027, Reback added.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
30 June 2025
Verb
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The pair, who met as college undergrads, both burned with idealism and recognized their privilege could be leveraged for a game-changing idea.—
Carole Horst,
Variety,
13 Sep. 2023
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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation promotes circular fashion and says that, in the United States, an amount of clothing equal to a garbage truck is ferried to landfills or burned every second.—
Neeti Mehra,
Treehugger,
13 Sep. 2023
Noun
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After a few weeks in this toxic miasma, the crew’s levels of hemoglobin, the crucial protein in red blood cells that ferries oxygen from the lungs to the muscles, had shot up by an average of 4.4 percent.—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside Online,
2 June 2025
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In such a milieu, Hine’s troubling 1908 photographs would easily disappear, perhaps seizing a moment but soon evaporating into the visual miasma that floods the zone daily.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
5 May 2025
Verb
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Look at those nimble, sturdy hands, foaming and lathering!—
Anelise Chen
June 3,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2025
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With a light, foaming gel texture, the cleanser can be used morning and night—massage it into the skin using gentle, circular motions for the best results.—
Jenny Berg,
Allure,
6 May 2025
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“Fume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fume. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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