effume

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verb

To breathe or puff out.

OriginLatin effumare →
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Meanings

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

present singular third person effumes · participle present effuming · participle past effumed · past effumed

  1. obsoleteTo 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, signature [I iiij], verso

Origin

  1. Latineffumare“to emit smoke”
  2. Englisheffume

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

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APA

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MLA

“effume.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/effume. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “effume,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/effume.

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