"chain-smoke" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: chain-smokes [present, singular, third-person], chain-smoking [participle, present], chain-smoked [participle, past], chain-smoked [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} chain-smoke (third-person singular simple present chain-smokes, present participle chain-smoking, simple past and past participle chain-smoked)
  1. (intransitive) To smoke cigarettes by continuously lighting one from the glowing end of the previous one. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Smoking
    Sense id: en-chain-smoke-en-verb-K7TqV-Jz Disambiguation of Smoking: 40 41 19 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 83 7 10 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 68 16 16 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 78 12 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 85 7 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 81 9 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 71 15 14 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 62 19 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 71 15 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 64 18 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 71 15 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 71 15 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 72 14 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 72 14 14
  2. (intransitive) To smoke tobacco cigarettes frequently. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Smoking Translations (to smoke cigarettes frequently): kæderyge (Danish), polttaa usein (Finnish), polttaa ketjussa (Finnish), fumer à la chaîne (French), עִשֵּׁן בְּשַׁרְשֶׁרֶת (Hebrew), palić w ciągu [imperfective] (Polish), fuma țigară după țigară (Romanian), непрерывно курить (nepreryvno kuritʹ) (Russian), fumar compulsivamente (Spanish), kedjeröka (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-chain-smoke-en-verb-9tNAWaL- Disambiguation of Smoking: 40 41 19 Disambiguation of 'to smoke cigarettes frequently': 28 60 12
  3. (transitive) To smoke by continuously lighting one from another. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Smoking
    Sense id: en-chain-smoke-en-verb-VKOhKAvy Disambiguation of Smoking: 40 41 19
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: chain smoke, chainsmoke Derived forms: chain smoker, chain-smoking

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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