smoke
/sməʊk/ · noun
Meaning
- The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- A cigarette.
- Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
- (never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
- A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
- Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
- Of the colour known as smoke.
- Made of or with smoke.
- To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
- To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
- To give off smoke.
- To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
- To dry or medicate by smoke.
- To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
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