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fume

Best crossword clue

"Emit vapor"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /fjuːm/Part of speech verb, nounSorted efmuStarts with FEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
1F2U3M4E

Definitions

  1. be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face

Word origin

From Middle English fume, from Old French fum (“smoke, steam, vapour”), from Latin fūmus (“vapour, smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós (“smoke”), from *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Doublet of thymus and thymos. More at dun, dusk, dust.

Used in a sentence

  • Don't stand around in there breathing the fumes while the adhesive cures.
  • the fumes of new-shorn hay
  • Lead fume is a greyish powder, mainly comprising lead sulfate.

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