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smoke around

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To give off smoke or steam; to be smoking.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive, obsolete

Examples

  • 1801, Joseph Charles Mellish (translator), Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller, London: Cotta, Tubingen, Act 5, p. 199, The altar is adorn’d, the tapers blaze, The bell invites, the incense smokes around,
  • 1821, Samuel Woodworth, poem written for the reopening of the Park Theater in New York, in Laurence Hutton (ed.), Opening Addresses, New York: Burt Franklin, 1970, p. 39, [...] shapeless heaps of ruins smoked around, And desolation marked the blackened ground,

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