Fuming
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fume \Fume\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fumed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fuming}.] [Cf. F. fumer, L. fumare to smoke. See {Fume}, n.]
1. To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical
action; to rise up, as vapor.
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Where the golden altar fumed. --Milton.
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Silenus lay,
Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain.
--Roscommon.
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2. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
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Keep his brain fuming. --Shak.
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3. To pass off in fumes or vapors.
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Their parts are kept from fuming away by their
fixity. --Cheyne.
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4. To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.
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He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
--Dryden.
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While her mother did fret, and her father did fume.
--Sir W.
Scott.
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{To fume away}, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to
storm; also, to pass off in fumes.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "fuming":
ablaze, aerial, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, afire, aflame,
aflicker, aglow, airy, alight, ardent, blazing, burning, candent,
candescent, comburent, conflagrant, enraged, ethereal, fierce,
fighting mad, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flickering, fumy,
furious, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, glowing,
guttering, hopping mad, ignescent, ignited, in a blaze, in a glow,
in a rage, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, infuriate,
infuriated, kindled, live, living, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic,
miasmic, on fire, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, pneumatic,
rabid, raging, ranting, raving, raving mad, reeking, reeky,
roaring mad, savage, scintillant, scintillating, smoking, smoky,
smoldering, sparking, steaming, steamy, storming, unextinguished,
unquenched, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory,
wild
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