Crossword-Solution: FUME
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fume | n. | Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco. |
| Fume | n. | Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion. |
| Fume | n. | Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination. |
| Fume | n. | The incense of praise; inordinate flattery. |
| Fume | n. | To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor. |
| Fume | n. | To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied. |
| Fume | n. | To pass off in fumes or vapors. |
| Fume | n. | To be in a rage; to be hot with anger. |
| Fume | v. t. | To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room. |
| Fume | v. t. | To praise inordinately; to flatter. |
| Fume | v. t. | To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with FUME (5)
But apt the Mind or Fancie is to roave Uncheckt, and of her roaving is no end; Till warn’d, or by experience taught, she learne, That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and suttle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime Wisdom, what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things that most concerne Unpractis’d, unprepar’d, and still to seek.
There is a thing that they forget, so let it here be writ, That some are made of common mud, and some are made of GRIT; Some try to help the world along while others fret and fume And wish that they were slumbering in the silence of the tomb.
Yes; let us go.” Chapter IX “Her father did fume” Oppressed, in spite of themselves, by a foresight of impending complications, Elfride and Stephen returned down the hill hand in hand.
Not so this figment!--not, that such a fume, Instead of giving way to time and health, Should eat itself into the life of life, As saffron tingeth flesh, blood, bones, and all! For see, how he takes up the after-life.
Bertie’s preferences did not greatly matter; he was of the sort who can be stolidly happy with any kind of wife; he had cheerfully put up with his grandmother all his life, so was not likely to fret and fume over anything that might befall him in the way of a helpmate.
Quotes with FUME (3)
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
Beauty Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family physician
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person fair, and feel a certain zest To bear your body's weight upon my breast; So subtly is the fume of life designed, To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind, And leave me once again undone, possessed. Think not for this, however, the poor treason Of my stout blood against my staggering brain, I shall remember you with love, or season My scorn with pity, -…
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 130 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).