fumesfumes /fjuːmz/ ●●○ noun [plural] 
paint fumes
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A strong smell of paint fumes filled the studio.
- According to the latest figures at least two youngsters die every week as a direct result of inhaling solvent fumes.
- Frequently, people throw water in front of their doors, and the dust gives way to mud and malodorous fumes.
- Investigators concluded damaged wiring may have provided the spark that ignited fumes in the fuel tank.
- Some scientists are concerned about long-term exposure to low levels of manganese oxides from car exhaust fumes.
- The atmosphere was being poisoned, every green thing blighted, and every stream fouled with chemical fumes and waste.
- The carbon deposit was thought to come from car exhaust fumes from a large car park close to the church.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Toxic chemicals were spilled into the river.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
strong-smelling gas or smoke that is unpleasant to breathe in: · These children are breathing traffic fumes all day long.
Toxic chemicals were spilled into the river.· Further risks are the increase in diesel fumes, back injuries, dermatitis and stress-related problems - all increasing in coal mines.· He could not avoid it, he took a lungful of the diesel fumes from the taxi as it pulled away.· The large square was crowded, dusty and clamorous and full of diesel fumes and the smell of fried onions.· The most likely cause was thought to be diesel exhaust fumes.· The juice was marvellous, cutting through the taste of dust and diesel fumes.
· It follows last April's evacuation of Kirkby swimming pool after scores of schoolchildren were overcome by noxious fumes.· The site would clean toxin-laced dirt by burning it, sending noxious fumes into nearby skies.· The atmosphere consisted of nothing but the noxious fumes of burnt bodies: the recyclers couldn't cope.
· We campaigned ferociously to ban the stuff that could kill people in minutes with its toxic fumes.· The other, in 1972, happened when a man was overcome by toxic fumes.· They give off thick black toxic fumes, which often prove to be more lethal than the flames themselves.· Also, you may throw on the fire something that gives off toxic fumes.· There was serious talk of ecological suicide, criminal irresponsibility and the evils of toxic fumes merging with alcoholic ones.· Do not use the stove inside a tent because of the risk of fire and toxic fumes.· Rubbish litters our countryside, toxic fumes are belched into our air and radioactive discharge pollutes our seas.· This apparently disposes of the toxic fumes much more safely.
NOUN· Trailed by a cloud of exhaust fumes, he accelerated up the road.· Some scientists are concerned about long-term exposure to low levels of manganese oxides from car exhaust fumes.· The carbon deposit was thought to come from car exhaust fumes from a large car park close to the church.· The exhaust fumes from the cars and buses pour in through the open windows of our bus.· The combination of early breakfast, exhaust fumes and nerves is a potent cocktail!· He said he only wanted to kill himself and claimed he ate rat poison and planned to inhale car exhaust fumes.· The so-called hybrid bus is virtually silent and produces fewer exhaust fumes.· As his engines speeded up on the runway, a little flap would open on the ground to catch the exhaust fumes.
· She has to be the biggest money-grabber this side of Gordon Brown crazed on petrol fumes.· It's into the car and close the boot, Petrol fumes instead of soot.· I am worried about possible toxic effects, from the petrol fumes, and the asbestos.· It appears he lit a cigarette which ignited the petrol fumes.
VERB· The National Institute on Drug Abuse has estimated that 1, 000 teens die annually by breathing fumes from easily accessible products.
· Also, you may throw on the fire something that gives off toxic fumes.· And there is the paint they use which gives off really bad fumes.· Do not buy foam-filled furniture if you can avoid it, as it can give oft lethal fumes when it ignites.· The lime was mixed with flowers of sulphur so that the walls would give off sulphurous fumes when they got warm.· It's giving off smelly fumes.· Some rags, which had apparently been used to wipe it out, gave off oil fumes.· It was a sort of devil's crucible, giving off poisonous fumes, just like a bowl of vitriol.· The solvent-weld cement gives off powerful fumes and should not be used in a confined space.
· It follows last April's evacuation of Kirkby swimming pool after scores of schoolchildren were overcome by noxious fumes.· The other, in 1972, happened when a man was overcome by toxic fumes.· Grom, having overcome his initial surprise, howled with pain and anger before he was overcome by the fumes.· Eighteen-year-old Jennie Whalley was overcome by carbon monoxide fumes while sitting in a car parked in a garage.· Mrs Ellen Morpeth is thought to have been overcome by fumes after the chair she was sitting on caught fire.
paint fumes