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Meaning of புகை in English

  • Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.
  • Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion.
  • Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
  • The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
  • To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.
  • To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
  • To pass off in fumes or vapors.
  • To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.
  • To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room.
  • To praise inordinately; to flatter.
  • To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.
  • A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.
  • A blouse; a smoock frock.
  • Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
  • To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.
  • The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like.
  • That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.
  • Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk.
  • The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke.
  • To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek.
  • Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.
  • To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
  • To draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco burning in a pipe or in the form of a cigar, cigarette, etc.; to habitually use tobacco in this manner.
  • To suffer severely; to be punished.
  • To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc., by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.
  • To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
  • To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
  • To ridicule to the face; to quiz.
  • To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar.
  • To subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of annoying or driving out; -- often with out; as, to smoke a woodchuck out of his burrow.
  • The quality or state of being smoky.
  • In a smoky manner.
  • Emitting smoke, esp. in large quantities or in an offensive manner; fumid; as, smoky fires.
  • Having the appearance or nature of smoke; as, a smoky fog.
  • Filled with smoke, or with a vapor resembling smoke; thick; as, a smoky atmosphere.
  • Subject to be filled with smoke from chimneys or fireplace; as, a smoky house.
  • Tarnished with smoke; noisome with smoke; as, smoky rafters; smoky cells.
  • Suspicious; open to suspicion.
  • Tending to smother; stifling.

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