Fumed


[fyoomd] /fyumd/

adjective
1.
darkened or colored by exposure to ammonia , as oak and other wood.
[fyoom] /fyum/
noun
1.
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.
2.
an irritable or angry mood:
He has been in a fume ever since the contract fell through.
verb (used with object), fumed, fuming.
3.
to emit or exhale, as fumes or vapor:
giant stacks fuming their sooty smoke.
4.
to treat with or expose to fumes.
5.
to show fretful irritation or anger:
She always fumes when the mail is late.
verb (used without object), fumed, fuming.
6.
to rise, or pass off, as fumes:
smoke fuming from an ashtray.
7.
to emit fumes:
The leaky pipe fumed alarmingly.
/fjuːmd/
adjective
1.
(of wood, esp oak) having a dark colour and distinctive grain from exposure to ammonia fumes
/fjuːm/
verb
1.
(intransitive) to be overcome with anger or fury; rage
2.
to give off (fumes) or (of fumes) to be given off, esp during a chemical reaction
3.
(transitive) to subject to or treat with fumes; fumigate
noun
4.
(often pl) a pungent or toxic vapour
5.
a sharp or pungent odour
6.
a condition of anger
n.

late 14c., from Old French fum “smoke, steam, vapor, breath,” from Latin fumus “smoke, steam, fume” (source of Italian fumo, Spanish humo), from PIE *dheu- (cf. Sanskrit dhumah, Old Church Slavonic dymu, Lithuanian dumai, Old Prussian dumis “smoke,” Middle Irish dumacha “fog,” Greek thymos “spirit, mind, soul”).
v.

c.1400, “to fumigate,” from Old French fumer, from Latin fumare “to smoke, steam,” from fumus “smoke, steam, fume” (see fume (n.)). Figurative sense of “show anger” is first recorded 1520s. Related: Fumed; fumes; fuming.
fume
(fym)
Smoke, vapor, or gas, especially if irritating, harmful, or smelly.

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