Synonyms for fumes
fumes

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1. exhaust, exhaust fumes, fumesnoun

   gases ejected from an engine as waste products

   Synonyms:
   exhaust, exhaust fumes, exhaust system

Matched Categories

1. • Gas
   • Waste

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1. List of paraphrases for "fumes":

   vapours, vapors, steamers, steamboats

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1. Daryl Turner:

   We are running on fumes. There’s no way we can investigate thoroughly, and correctly, all these shootings.

2. General Petraeus:

   We did raise concerns about this at the time. It was pretty clear that the fumes from these burn pits were potentially serious in their effects over time.

3. Mary Rose:

   They tried to persuade us they were good guys since they were a family-owned company. But they were spreading noxious fumes into a residential area, we tried to work with them, but their violations were just so blatant.

4. Ron Peters:

   The gas fumes were just too much.

5. Mark Zandi:

   The vaccine is great. It makes everyone feel better. But at the end of the day, the pandemic is as bad as it's ever been, we still have a lot of unemployed people, small businesses struggling to survive, airlines running on fumes.