fastball heater smoke hummer bullet | (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity, he swung late on the fastball, he showed batters nothing but smoke |
purge | an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place, he died in a purge by Stalin |
purge purging | an act of removing by cleansing, ridding of sediment or other undesired elements |
purge purging purgation | the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge |
extraction | the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force), the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction |
smoke smoking | the act of smoking tobacco or other substances, he went outside for a smoke, smoking stinks |
smoke screen smokescreen | an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure, requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures |
fire alarm smoke alarm | an alarm that is tripped off by fire or smoke |
pot grass green goddess dope weed gage sess sens smoke skunk locoweed Mary Jane | street names for marijuana |
roll of tobacco smoke | tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder |
smoke bomb smoke grenade | a bomb that gives off thick smoke when it explodes, used to make a smoke screen or to mark a position |
smoke hole | a vent (as in a roof) for smoke to escape |
smoke screen smokescreen | (military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements |
smoke | something with no concrete substance, his dreams all turned to smoke, it was just smoke and mirrors |
origin descent extraction | properties attributable to your ancestry, he comes from good origins |
smoke | an indication of some hidden activity, with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere |
gun smoke | smoke created by the firing of guns |
smoke fume | a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas |
smoke bush | any of various shrubs of the genus Conospermum with panicles of mostly white woolly flowers |
smoke tree Dalea spinosa | greyish-green shrub of desert regions of southwestern United States and Mexico having sparse foliage and terminal spikes of bluish violet flowers, locally important as source of a lightolored honey of excellent flavor |
prairie smoke purple avens Geum triflorum | North American perennial with hairy basal pinnate leaves and purple flowers and plume-tipped fruits |
smoke tree smoke bush | any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinus |
extraction | the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means |
mineral extraction mineral processing mineral dressing ore processing ore dressing beneficiation | crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques |
smoke smoking | a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion, the fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles |
bulimarexia binge-purge syndrome binge-vomit syndrome bulima nervosa | a disorder of eating in which the person alternates between strong craving for food and aversion to food, characterized by excessive eating followed by periods of fasting or self-induced vomiting |
purge | excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body), The doctor decided that the patient must be purged |
vomit vomit up purge cast sick cat be sick disgorge regorge retch puke barf spew spue chuck upchuck honk regurgitate throw up dbbaa | eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth, After drinking too much, the students vomited, He purged continuously, The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night |
flush scour purge | rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid, flush the wound with antibiotics, purge the old gas tank |
purge | rid of impurities, purge the water, purge your mind |
purify purge sanctify | make pure or free from sin or guilt, he left the monastery purified |
purge | clear of a charge |
smoke | inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes, We never smoked marijuana, Do you smoke? |
chain-smoke | smoke one cigarette after another, light one cigarette from the preceding one |
smoke out | drive out with smoke, smoke out the bees |
purge | oust politically, Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime |
fume smoke | emit a cloud of fine particles, The chimney was fuming |
smoked smoke-cured smoke-dried | (used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke |
smoke-filled | containing smoke, smoke-filled rooms |
smoke-free | free of smoke, smoke-free offices and restaurants |