fume

1. 1.

   a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas

   Synonymssmoke

   Broaderaerosol

   Narrowergun smokesmother

Other forms of fume

plural

fumes·

past tense

fumed·

present participle

fuming·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fume

What does fume mean?

fume means "be mad, angry, or furious". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fume?

fume has 1 syllable: fume. In IPA it is /ˈfjum/.

What is another word for fume?

Close synonyms include smoke, fumigate, reek, smoke. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fume a common word?

fume is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fume?

1 word rhymes with fume. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.