- any smokelike or vaporous exhalation from matter or substances, especially of an odorous or harmful nature: tobacco fumes; noxious fumes of carbon monoxide.
- an irritable or angry mood: He has been in a fume ever since the contract fell through.
- to emit or exhale, as fumes or vapor: giant stacks fuming their sooty smoke.
- to treat with or expose to fumes.
- to rise, or pass off, as fumes: smoke fuming from an ashtray.
- to emit fumes: The leaky pipe fumed alarmingly.
- to show fretful irritation or anger: She always fumes when the mail is late.
- of food, cured or flavored by exposure to smoke; smoked.
- to be overcome with anger or fury; rage
- to give off (fumes) or (of fumes) to be given off, esp during a chemical reaction
- to subject to or treat with fumes; fumigate
- a pungent or toxic vapour
- a sharp or pungent odour
- a condition of anger
