fume
noun
Often fumes any smokelike or vaporous exhalation from matter or substances, especially of an odorous or harmful nature.
will fume
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future tenseof fume.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Voters from less enfranchised areas will fume if services and shelters are forced into their neighborhoods, but they often don’t show up at meetings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
It means either Turkey or Holland could get lucky and face his understudy, while the other will fume if they are unlucky enough to face one of the world’s best goalkeepers.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2015
They will fume and prevaricate for a few weeks and then, if their pollsters read the owl droppings and find omens of the American People Moving On, the party will find a new issue.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2010
Purists will fume, but what is worse is that such permissiveness can only invite a further tattering of the language -- and already has.
From Time Magazine Archive
Your mother will fume when the fact is made known to her, but I give it to you that my three girls may always have a roof, humble though it be, over their heads.
From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Jennie M. Drinkwater
