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noun ADJ. dense, thick | black, blue, grey, etc. | billowing | acrid, choking, stale | cigar, cigarette, pipe, tobacco QUANT. cloud, column, haze, pall, plume, puff, spiral, wisp We sat drinking in a haze of cigarette smoke. The witch disappeared in a puff of smoke. VERB + SMOKE belch (out), blow, emit The lorry ahead was belching out black smoke. Don't blow smoke in my face! | exhale | inhale | go up in The barn went up in smoke (= was destroyed by a fire). | be wreathed in She sat there wreathed in cigarette smoke. SMOKE + VERB belch, billow, curl, drift, fill, pour, rise from/into Blue smoke curled upwards from her cigarette. | hang A pall of yellow smoke hung over the quarry. | clear When the smoke cleared we saw the extent of the damage. SMOKE + NOUN plume, ring I taught myself to blow smoke rings. | signal | bomb | alarm, detector | emission | inhalation PHRASES full of smoke, thick with smoke The public bar was thick with stale tobacco smoke., verb cigarette/pipe, etc. ADV. heavily He has always smoked heavily. meat/fish/cheese ADV. heavily | lightly The ham is cured, then lightly smoked.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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smoke sb/sth out
[ M ]
If you smoke out an animal or person that is hiding, you force them to leave the place where they are by filling it
• ith smoke
• figurative: The finance minister has promised a tougher approach to smoking out (= finding) tax dodgers.
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs
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smoke
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + smoke
black/blue/white/grey smoke
• Black smoke poured out of the engine.
thick/dense smoke
• Thick smoke spread through the building.
acrid smoke
(= smelling bad and making you cough )
• The shop was full of thick, acrid smoke.
cigarette/cigar/tobacco smoke
• The air was thick with cigarette smoke.
wood smoke
• I love the scent of wood smoke.
phrases
a cloud of smoke
(= a large amount )
• He lit a cigarette and blew out a cloud of smoke.
a billow of smoke
(= a large amount of smoke from a fire )
• The green, fresh leaves will burn slowly, with billows of smoke.
a pall of smoke
(= a thick cloud of smoke hanging over something )
• A thick pall of smoke hung over Cape Town.
a column/plume of smoke
• He could see a thin black column of smoke rising vertically into the sky.
a puff of smoke
(= a small amount that comes quickly from something )
• There was a puff of white smoke from the man's gun.
a wisp of smoke
(= a thin amount of smoke )
• Only a few wisps of smoke rose here and there.
verbs
smoke rises
• Smoke was rising from the top of the tower.
smoke billows
(= large amounts come from a fire )
• She noticed smoke billowing out of one of the bedrooms.
smoke drifts
• The cigarette smoke drifted away on the breeze.
smoke curls
• Smoke curled from cooking fires next to a group of tents.
smoke clears
(= disappears )
• The kitchen door was still open, and inside the smoke was clearing.
belch (out) smoke
(= send out large amounts of smoke )
• The factories belch smoke.
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