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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of fume.

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  • adjective (of wood) darkened or colored by exposure to ammonia fumes

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Examples

  • And then on Halloween, the day after Palin's disgust for various members of the Alaska media bubbled over and caused her, the mother of a daughter who bore a son out of wedlock, to ironically describe these reporters as "corrupt bastards," Palin fumed on Fox News that reporters citing anonymous Republican sources criticizing her in a recent Politico article should "man up" and "cite themselves" so she could publicly debate them.

    Mary Shannon Little: Man Up Sarah! This Is Your Sister Souljah Moment Mary Shannon Little 2010

  • And then on Halloween, the day after Palin's disgust for various members of the Alaska media bubbled over and caused her, the mother of a daughter who bore a son out of wedlock, to ironically describe these reporters as "corrupt bastards," Palin fumed on Fox News that reporters citing anonymous Republican sources criticizing her in a recent Politico article should "man up" and "cite themselves" so she could publicly debate them.

    Mary Shannon Little: Man Up Sarah! This Is Your Sister Souljah Moment Mary Shannon Little 2010

  • And then on Halloween, the day after Palin's disgust for various members of the Alaska media bubbled over and caused her, the mother of a daughter who bore a son out of wedlock, to ironically describe these reporters as "corrupt bastards," Palin fumed on Fox News that the anonymous Republicans sources criticizing her in a recent Politico article should "man up" and "cite themselves" so she could publicly debate them.

    Mary Shannon Little: Man Up Sarah! This Is Your Sister Souljah Moment Mary Shannon Little 2010

  • This produces the rich nut-brown finish so popular in Arts and Crafts furniture and is known as fumed oak.

    Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I 1891

  • "At a time of war, in the face of the grand civilizational challenge that radical Islam poses," fumed, "Kagan treated military recruiters worse than she treated the high-powered law firms that were donating their expensive legal services to anti-American terrorists."

    CampusProgress.org 2010

  • "To refer to 'cleansing' is deeply offensive to people who have witnessed cleansing in other parts of the world," he fumed.

    Nick 'O'Teen' Clegg turns nasty Simon Hoggart 2010

  • "Can't see a bloody thing!" fumed an Australian cameraman.

    How the media in Chile helped focus the eyes of the world on the miners Rory Carroll 2010

  • "That's three decisions that's swung the game to the millionaires," fumed Holloway.

    Five things we learned from the Premier League this weekend Barry Glendenning 2010

  • But mostly he just fumed at the antics of his junkie ex and apologized profusely to Sookie for either endangering her life or making a pass at her.

    True Blood Episode Recap: "If You Love Me, Why Am I Dying?" 2011

  • After Romney's appointment, the Huntsman clan privately fumed that Jon Jr. had been used to make a closed search look more open.

    Let t h e ir games b e gin 2011

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