smoking
/ˈsmoʊkɪŋ/ noun A1- The act or process of emitting smoke.
- The burning and inhalation of any drug, including tobacco, cannabis, cocaine, and others.
- The burning and inhalation of tobacco. · Smoking can lead to lung cancer.
- The burning and inhalation of cigarettes.
- The act of exposing (something) to smoke; (by extension) the process by which foods are cured or flavored by smoke.
Plural smokings
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She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.
“You’ll get used to it in time,” said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.
Matthew was smoking--a sure sign of perturbation of mind.
After two hours of smoking and hard reflection Matthew arrived at a solution of his problem.
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