FUMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fumed mean? 

• FUMED (adjective)
  The adjective FUMED has 1 sense:

1. (of wood) darkened or colored by exposure to ammonia fumes

  Familiarity information: FUMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Context example:

fumed oak

Similar:

treated (subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent)

 Context examples 

He had fumed inwardly during the feast, but when the flurry was over and he strolled home after seeing Scott off, a milder mood came over him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She gnawed her lower lip and fumed dumbly.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Three days of rest, three blessed days of rest, are what I had with Wolf Larsen, eating at the cabin table and doing nothing but discuss life, literature, and the universe, the while Thomas Mugridge fumed and raged and did my work as well as his own.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)