fumes
烟雾,烟尘,烟气,烟雾剂
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- : Often fumes . 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.
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fumed, fum·ing.
- : to emit or exhale, as fumes or vapor: giant stacks fuming their sooty smoke.
- : to treat with or expose to fumes.
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fumed, fum·ing.
- : 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.
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To create that all-important alcohol content, the fumes are circulated out of the still into condensers.
Fumes filled the arena, engines revved, and the beastly vehicles made their way out on to the spotlight.
The smells of roasting maize, diesel fumes, and floral soap from the streets of Harare are still seared into my brain.
The stench of the backed-up toilets combines with the fumes of garbage fermenting in the midday sun.
But inhale the fumes of Republican rhetoric more deeply, and a more mind-blowing reality comes into focus.
In smoking, they swallow the fumes of the tobacco which causes intoxication for a time.
The champagne was cold, and its subtle fumes played fantastic tricks with Edna's memory that night.
While they were talking another shell entered the small apartment, exploded, and filled the air with dust and stifling fumes.
And while the men breathed the bitter fumes, Chew-chew threatened the angry god and commanded him to go away.
Each sprite of aromatic perfume when released plunged into noiseless tumult with opposing fumes.