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effume

effume verb: to breathe or puff out.

Verb

effume (third-person singular simple present effumes, present participle effuming, simple past and past participle effumed)

  1. (obsolete) To breathe or puff out.
    • I can make this dog take as many whiffes as I liſt, and he ſhall retaine or efume them at my pleaſure.1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act III, scene i...

Forms of effume

third-person singular presenteffumes
present participleeffuming
past participleeffumed
pasteffumed

Origin of effume

From Latin effumare (“to emit smoke”), from ex + fumare (“to smoke”), from fumus (“smoke”).

Words formed from effume

Questions about effume

What does effume mean?
Effume means to breathe or puff out.
What part of speech is effume?
Effume is a verb.
What is the past tense of effume?
The past tense of effume is effumed.

Words near effume in the dictionary

  1. effulges
  2. effulging
  3. effumability
  4. effumation
  5. effumations
  6. effume
  7. effumed
  8. effumes
  9. effuming
  10. effund
  11. effunded

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