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  • past participle of fume.
  • past tense form of fume.
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fumed

[fyoomd] / fjumd /


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“I want ammunition, too, but I wouldn’t come in and pick your pocket for it,” fumed local resident Lesa Butner, 61, a retired police officer.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

As some residents fumed about the restrictions, they asked why managers of Las Virgenes weren’t taking a hard look at desalination.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

Then, at the regular Senate Republican Conference lunch on Aug. 6, 1974, Goldwater fumed, “There are only so many lies you can take, and now there has been one too many.”

From Salon May 8, 2026

"The club and myself lost big tonight, it's unacceptable," fumed La Rochelle's head coach Ronan O'Gara, a two-time Champions Cup winner with Munster as a fly-half.

From Barron's Jan. 18, 2026

“Now I shall have to waste part of my salary on clothes, which I hardly need,” she fumed, although it was not really true, for the elbows of her sleeves were worn rather thin.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood



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