volume
/ˈvɑl.jum/ verb C2- To be conveyed through the air, waft.
- To cause to move through the air, waft.
- To swell.
He/she/it volumes · Past volumed · Past participle volumed · -ing form voluming
Verb forms
- Base form
- volume
- He/she/it
- volumes
- Past
- volumed
- Past participle
- volumed
- -ing form
- voluming
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The captain pointed towards the island, up the side of which ascended a volume of smoke, increasing as it rose.
Had the volume been an unusual one, he would have sent it to me.
Even if I accepted the compliment for myself I could hardly name any volume which would be less likely to lie at the elbow of one of Moriarty’s associates.
Though reserved in its earlier vocabulary, it becomes, if I remember right, quite garrulous towards the end.” He picked the volume from his desk.
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