smoke 1 of 2

verb

Definition of smokenext
slang
as in to dust
to defeat by a large margin man, they totally smoked us today!

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smoke

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noun

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as in steam

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as in naught

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Recent Examples of smoke
Verb
His first exposure to drugs came as a teenager, smoking marijuana in high school. — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2026 Last year, in his age-21 season, the Rays’ favorite masher smoked 45 home runs. — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Noun
Matt Martin, 47th, would allow one interior exit stairs in new apartment buildings up to five stories and no more than four units per floor, while ensuring that every building has sprinklers, short travel distances, fire alarms and smoke detection. — Adam Drakulic, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026 All rights reserved The Green Bay Packers’ 2025 season went up in smoke during their Week 15 trip to Denver. — Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for smoke
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smoke
  1. dust
  2. steam
  3. naught
  4. bomb
  5. cloud
  6. nothingness
  7. overcome
  8. fume
Verb
  • And lastly, how, despite Newey’s backhanded public comments toward Aston’s new works partner, everyone at Honda simply dusted themselves off and began working on a solution.
    — Jerry Perez, The Drive, 20 Aug. 2026
  • How To Deep Clean Stained Wood Baseboards For stained wood baseboards, Matthews advises dusting using a dry microfiber cloth and Murphy’s Oil or a wood cleaning oil (remove excessive dirt and crumbs with a vacuum cleaner first).
    — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of dust
Noun
  • The wreck of a steam tugboat dating from the early 1900s is the latest relic to emerge from shrinking waters in Serbia as Europe's rivers run dry, with the continent engulfed in prolonged, extreme heat and drought.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The emphasis is that, rather than using more traditional legal angles or in conjunction with traditional legal charges, a movement to label AI as a public nuisance seems to be gaining steam.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of steam
Noun
  • Though there is still no fix for the mutation, the subsequent research spawned by the work of Fraumeni, Li, and other pioneers hasn’t been for naught.
    — Lawrence Ingrassia, STAT, 26 June 2026
  • Sure, you’re invested in seeing Syd, Richie, Carmy, Tina (Liza Colón-Zayas),Neil (Matty Matheson), Marcus (Lionel Boyce), and Natalie (Abby Elliott) come together and perform at their best, but without the stakes of earning a Michelin star, all their anxiety is for nought.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 26 June 2026
Definition of naught
Verb
  • Hmeimin served as a hub for Syrian warplanes that repeatedly bombed anti-Assad opposition groups, killing several civilians and destroying large parts of Syria’s infrastructure, including hospitals and medical facilities, in the process.
    — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Their meeting came days after Trump threatened to bomb the country over their Strait of Hormuz negotiations with Iran.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of bomb
Noun
  • Arm moves into mainframes Arm processors have become widely used across cloud infrastructure, mobile devices and increasingly AI computing.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 25 Aug. 2026
  • That bill will likely face industry pushback, CNBC suggested, since cloud providers would bear the cost of that new compliance regime, including implementing better know-your-customer protocols.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of cloud
Noun
  • For some of us, this is a very counterintuitive notion, as the notion of things existing within and moving through some form of empty nothingness just doesn’t make any sense.
    — Big Think, Big Think, 7 May 2026
  • Emptied feels like a sudden gushing whoosh, then nothingness.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
Definition of nothingness
Verb
  • And then, with the game in the balance, Taylor’s two 3-pointers over the Valkyries — against man-to-man defense — was too much to overcome.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2026
  • This method could potentially be adapted for industrial manufacturing, but there were still limitations to overcome, with the biggest one being the quality of the material.
    — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of overcome
Noun
  • Ensure your storage spaces are properly ventilated to avoid damage from moisture buildup and chemical fume exposure.
    — Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 July 2026
  • The report points to the adoption and use of Airbus' A320s — the world's best-selling aircraft — which United, American, and Delta Air Lines currently operate, as a contributing factor to the increase in fume events.
    — Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 15 June 2026
Definition of fume

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