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smoking

DEFINITIONS OF: smoking

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n the act of smoking tobacco or other substances

smoking stinks”
Synonyms:
smoke
Types:
puffing
blowing tobacco smoke out into the air
Type of:
breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation
the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation

n a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion

Synonyms:
smoke
Type of:
evaporation, vapor, vaporisation, vaporization, vapour
the process of becoming a vapor

adj emitting smoke in great volume

“a smoking fireplace”
Synonyms
smoky
marked by or emitting or filled with smoke
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