as in angry
feeling or showing anger
I was fuming after losing the game by a single point
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as in steaming
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger
he silently fumed as his ex-girlfriend danced with her new beau
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as in storming
to express one's anger usually violently
when she found out her driver's license was being suspended, she fumed, throwing papers across the room and shouting at the top of her lungs
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Recent Examples of fuming
Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
Dancing With the Stars (DWTS) fans were left fuming on Tuesday evening after an apparent Disney+ glitch interrupted the show.
—Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Clemson Tigers head coach Dabo Swinney is still fuming about officiating in college football and sounded off again about it on Tuesday days after a devastating loss to Duke.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 5 Nov. 2025
The president spent months fuming at CBS News and sued the network and its parent company, Paramount, over the editing of an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 election.
—Max Tani, semafor.com, 31 Oct. 2025
Publishers have already spent the past year fuming about ChatGPT summarising their stories.
—The Ai Insider, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
But that hasn’t stopped the cattle lobby from fuming.
—Colin Meyn, The Hill, 24 Oct. 2025
Geolocation companies are fuming about this stance.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2025
This alliance seems to satisfy Uncle Grant, but Malcolm is fuming.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
Waiting for him there, fuming from a bench with an unobstructed view of the North Portico, is the living manifestation of dishonesty.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
Dancing With the Stars (DWTS) fans were left fuming on Tuesday evening after an apparent Disney+ glitch interrupted the show.
—Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Clemson Tigers head coach Dabo Swinney is still fuming about officiating in college football and sounded off again about it on Tuesday days after a devastating loss to Duke.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 5 Nov. 2025
The president spent months fuming at CBS News and sued the network and its parent company, Paramount, over the editing of an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 election.
—Max Tani, semafor.com, 31 Oct. 2025
Publishers have already spent the past year fuming about ChatGPT summarising their stories.
—The Ai Insider, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
But that hasn’t stopped the cattle lobby from fuming.
—Colin Meyn, The Hill, 24 Oct. 2025
Geolocation companies are fuming about this stance.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2025
This alliance seems to satisfy Uncle Grant, but Malcolm is fuming.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fuming
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Snook and Lacy, who display such sharp instincts in their best work, seem to have been directed to overact; cameras freeze on their exaggeratedly bewildered or angry or devastated expressions, putting exclamation points at the end of too many scenes.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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So what actually makes Powell angry?—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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Additionally, steaming away wrinkles can give you that high-end feel typically found in a spa or hotel atmosphere.—
Shivani Vyas,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Nov. 2025
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At Curry in a Hurry, Sajjad Chowdhury ladles steaming goat curry into a bowl for a customer while reflecting on the news the very building where investigators say the high-stakes poker games took place is just a block away.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025
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In the predawn hours of October 31, FBI agents descended on the Detroit suburb where the men lived and detonated smoke bombs before storming into their homes.—
Mark Morales,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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Stines, 44, was allegedly caught on security video storming into Mullins’ chambers before shooting him in an alleged courthouse ambush that rattled the Appalachian community.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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An enraged University of Iowa student was arrested after a Turning Point USA table was flipped on campus in an incident that was caught on video.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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Which casts a show seemingly designed to bypass all judgments with respect to storytelling and taste, gliding straight to the pleasure center of some imaginary horny, enraged, shopaholic feminine id, in a fairly sinister light.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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Another is an anarchist raging against a large corporation.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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The third model to ever wear a raging bull on its hood, the Miura wasn’t even supposed to exist.—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Health experts and Black leaders were outraged at his statement.—
Bea L. Hines,
Miami Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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Parents would likely be outraged to learn the department isn’t more consistently tracking this information, said Charles Hobson, a professor at Indiana University Northwest and a board member of the advocacy group Stop Educator Sexual Abuse Misconduct & Exploitation.—
Danielle DuClos,
jsonline.com,
17 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The Clash in 1983 were definitely in that category, as Strummer and Simonon kept seething at Jones’ prima-donna airs.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
9 Nov. 2025
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None of this has sat well with Robert, who is currently off the force, lying low, and seething at both Kyle and Evelyn.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
26 Oct. 2025
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Chamberlin Fire has been burning on federal land managed by the National Park Service for three hours.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
11 Nov. 2025
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The company built a retail and residential complex around the county’s Coconut Grove Metrorail station, and Martin also is pitching an incinerator site in western Miami-Dade as an alternative to the Levine Cava plan to rebuild the trash-burning facility in Doral.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
4 Jan. 2025
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“Fuming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fuming. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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