smoke
/smoʊk/ verb A2- To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette or cigar, burning material in a pipe, etc. · He's smoking his pipe.· Her dad smoked various brands when he was younger.
- To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke. · Do you smoke?
- To give off smoke. · My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.
- Of a fire in a fireplace, to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
- Of tobacco: to give off or produce smoke (in a certain manner or of a certain type).
- To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke. · You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.
- To dry or medicate by smoke.
- To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully. · The horn section was really smokin' on that last tune.
He/she/it smokes · Past smoked · Past participle smoked · -ing form smoking
Verb forms
- Base form
- smoke
- He/she/it
- smokes
- Past
- smoked
- Past participle
- smoked
- -ing form
- smoking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
The grey smoke towers.
That now you smoke your pipe around,
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.
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