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Collocations for smoke - 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.

Collocations for smoke - verb

1. cigarette/pipe, etc.

ADV.

heavily
He has always smoked heavily.

2. meat/fish/cheese

ADV.

heavily | lightly
The ham is cured, then lightly smoked.

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