Emotions
Synonyms for fume
The synonym for fume recorded in this bank is seethe, in the sense "to feel or show great anger, especially without shouting". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for fume
- seetheverb, in the sense "to feel or show great anger, especially without shouting"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and fume carries one sense so far.
to feel or show great anger, especially without shouting
He tends to fume silently whenever traffic makes him miss his flight.
The true synonym
seethe
Same sentence, swapped: He tends to seethe silently whenever traffic makes him miss his flight.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- chuckle
- apologize
- doze
Where fume turns up in the game
fume is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play fume
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so fume reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because emotions is the company fume keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. fume carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.