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noun

the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.

something resembling this, as vapor or mist, flying particles, etc.

something unsubstantial, evanescent, or without result: Their hopes and dreams proved to be smoke.

an obscuring condition: the smoke of controversy.

an act or spell of smoking something, especially tobacco: They had a smoke during the intermission.

something for smoking, as a cigar or cigarette: This is the best smoke on the market.

Slang. a homemade drink consisting of denatured alcohol and water.

Physics, Chemistry. a system of solid particles suspended in a gaseous medium.

a bluish or brownish gray color.

verb (used without object), smoked, smok·ing.

to give off or emit smoke, as in burning.

to give out smoke offensively or improperly, as a stove.

to send forth steam or vapor, dust, or the like.

to draw into the mouth and puff out the smoke of tobacco or the like, as from a pipe or cigarette.

Slang. to ride or travel with great speed.

Australian.

1. to flee.
2. to abscond.

verb (used with object), smoked, smok·ing.

to draw into the mouth and puff out the smoke of: to smoke tobacco.

to use (a pipe, cigarette, etc.) in this process.

to expose to smoke.

to fumigate (rooms, furniture, etc.).

to cure (meat, fish, etc.) by exposure to smoke.

to color or darken by smoke.

Verb Phrases

smoke out,

1. to drive from a refuge by means of smoke.
2. to force into public view or knowledge; reveal: to smoke out the leaders of the spy ring.

Origin of smoke

before 1000; (noun) Middle English; Old English smoca; (v.) Middle English smoken,Old English smocian

OTHER WORDS FROM smoke

smokelike, adjectivean·ti·smoke, adjective, nounun·smoked, adjectiveun·smok·ing, adjective

Words related to smoke

How to use smoke in a sentence

• The 491,000-acre August Complex Fire is now the largest blaze in state history, and statewide, a total of more than 3 million acres have gone up in smoke, a record area for a single year.

• I am constantly wondering if the tightness in my chest is panic or rage or virus or smoke.

• When a shot is fired, it’s the bang that is heard, the smoke that is felt.

• The fires fueled huge thunderclouds, which drew between 300,000 and 900,000 metric tons of smoke into the stratosphere — more smoke than any known inferno.

• Maybe there’s too much smog that day from agricultural emissions in the Central Valley, or even too many locals complain that they don’t like smoke.

• When it comes to the increasing number of rape allegations leveled at Bill Cosby, the smoke is becoming impenetrable.

• You spice it with blues and skiffle music, and pickle it in alcohol and tobacco smoke.

• “At least it keeps the mosquitoes away,” one of my table-mates said, as we watched the swooshes of smoke waft into the Havana sky.

• Perhaps the guards at the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities will finally be allowed to smoke cubans, too.

• So too does Inherent Vice, which is something like a love letter written in pot smoke to the Gold Coast.

• The young men gathered round him and offered him a cigar, which he accepted and began to smoke.

• After a bit of waiting, Mac decided that the smoke was floating from a certain direction, and we began to edge carefully that way.

• The smoke from her kitchen fire rose white as she put in dry sumac to give it a start.

• In most club card-rooms smoking is not permitted, but at the Pandemonium it is the fashion to smoke everywhere.

• When the smoke and dust cleared away nothing stirred on the whole of that piece of ground.

noun

the product of combustion, consisting of fine particles of carbon carried by hot gases and air

any cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas

1. the act of smoking tobacco or other substances, esp in a pipe or as a cigarette or cigar
2. the duration of smoking such substances

informal

1. a cigarette or cigar
2. a substance for smoking, such as pipe tobacco or marijuana

something with no concrete or lasting substanceeverything turned to smoke

a thing or condition that obscures

any of various colours similar to that of smoke, esp a dark grey with a bluish, yellowish, or greenish tinge

go up in smoke or end up in smoke

1. to come to nothing
2. to burn up vigorously
3. to flare up in anger

verb

(intr)to emit smoke or the like, sometimes excessively or in the wrong place

1. to draw in on (a burning cigarette, etc) and exhale the smoke
2. to use tobacco for smoking

(intr) slangto use marijuana for smoking

(tr)to bring (oneself) into a specified state by smoking

(tr)to subject or expose to smoke

(tr)to cure (meat, fish, cheese, etc) by treating with smoke

(tr)to fumigate or purify the air of (rooms, etc)

(tr)to darken (glass, etc) by exposure to smoke

(intr) slangto move, drive, ride, etc, very fast

(tr) obsoleteto tease or mock

(tr) archaicto suspect or detect

Derived forms of smoke

smokable or smokeable, adjective

Word Origin for smoke

Old English smoca (n); related to Middle Dutch smieken to emit smoke