Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
fume . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
fume .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun gases ejected from an engine as waste products
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Examples
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The powerful menthol fumes from the Vicks hardly masked the sickening reek of death in the old warehouse, that seemed to permeate every olfactory nerve in my body.
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Solvents are either "bagged" (sprayed in a plastic bag placed over the head) or "huffed" (inhaled fumes from a solvent-soaked cloth).
Freon Abuse 2010
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The odor of the fumes is so strong that I start a couple of oscillating fans to clear the fumes out of the house, that doesn't seem to affect the effectiveness of it.
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Dust covers the entire city; the smell of diesel fumes is pervasive no matter where you go; there are ruins and debris everywhere you look; and the trees are all destroyed (either cut down for fuel or by the Soviets years earlier to thwart snipers who used them for cover).
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The small unseen, unnoticed fumes from the charging process are increadably corrosive on braided lines.
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Not to say that Dharavi is a paradise or even pleasant to live in -- the toxic fumes from the plastics recycling plants are reason enough to want to raise your children elsewhere -- but that, as compared to government schemes to cram poor people into tower-blocks, Dhravi has a lot going for it.
Boing Boing 2009
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The fumes from the Shuttle SRBs must have clouded your thinking on such topics.
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The odor of the fumes is so strong that I start a couple of oscillating fans to clear the fumes out of the house, that doesn't seem to affect the effectiveness of it.
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I'm not sure riding or walking underneath an elevated structure and breathing diesel fumes is that attractive to pedestrians or bicyclists.
Sidewalks Not Sufficient for Cyclists in SODO « PubliCola 2010
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The odor of the fumes is so strong that I start a couple of oscillating fans to clear the fumes out of the house, that doesn't seem to affect the effectiveness of it.
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