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fumed

  • /fjuːmd/

Rhymes with -uːmd

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of fume

adjective

  1. not comparable Of wood, treated with ammonia fumes to darken its colour and enhance its grain pattern. A customer interrupted her by coming in, in quest of an overmantel, but when Rita by her blandishments had sold a deplorable example in fumed oak, she was again beset with misgivings about letting that old fool get drunk with a dangerous ascent of the stairs to be faced.

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@misc{fumed_2026,
  title = {fumed},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fumed},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}