fumed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjuːmd/
• Rhymes: -uːmd

Verb

fumed

1. simple past and past participle of fume

Adjective

fumed (not comparable)

1. Of wood, treated with ammonia fumes to darken its colour and enhance its grain pattern.
   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 151:

     A customer interrupted her by coming in, in quest of an overmantel, but when Rita by her blandishments had sold a deplorable example in fumed oak, she was again beset with misgivings about letting that old fool get drunk with a dangerous ascent of the stairs to be faced.

Derived terms

• unfumed