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1. The act of smoking tobacco or other substances
   "smoking stinks";
   - smoke
    
2. A hot vapour containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion
   - smoke

1. Emitting smoke in great volume
   "a smoking fireplace"
    
2. [Brit] Sexually attractive
   - dishy [Brit], hot [Brit], tasty [Brit]
    
3. (informal) brilliant; very good
   - storming [Brit], blinding [Brit], stonking [Brit], brill [Brit], wicked, ace, def, magic [Brit], smokin', super, sick [N. Amer]

1. Inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes
   "We never smoked marijuana"; "Do you smoke?"
    
2. Emit a cloud of fine particles
   "The chimney was smoking";
   - fume
    
3. Treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests
   "The proper way to smoke a room is to close the windows and doors";
   - fumigate, fume
    
4. (of food) preserve or flavour by smoking
   "smoke the fish"
    
5. [N. Amer] Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
   "We smoked the other team on Sunday!";
   - cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick, trounce, wipe the floor, whale [N. Amer], hammer, slaughter, tromp [N. Amer], muller [Brit], beat hollow

Derived forms: smokings

See also: awesome [informal], beaut [Austral, NZ], beautiful, excellent, fantabulous, first-class, smokey, smoky, splendid, top-drawer

Type of: beat, beat out, breathing, consume, crush, emit, evaporation, external respiration, give off, give out, have, ingest, process, respiration, shell, take, take in, treat, trounce, vanquish, vapor [US], vaporisation [Brit], vaporization, vapour [Brit, Cdn], ventilation

Encyclopedia: Smoking