as in angry
feeling or showing anger
I was fuming after losing the game by a single point
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1
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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2
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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Adjective
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That's the tipping point, and Austin breaks up the bromance, leaving Craig lost and angry and eager to prove himself as a cool dude worth hanging out with.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
9 May 2025 -
And a lot of people who were really angry and really hurt and really frustrated about their place in life in America.—
Jim Ryan,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
Verb
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Then the truck flipped over, sending the workers into the raging water.—
Travis Loller,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Dec. 2024
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Here is the list of fighters that gained immortality as a result of this raging inferno.—
Interesting Engineering,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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After a year of intense efforts, we are baffled and indignant.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
9 May 2025
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Before the arrest, some indignant residents took to social media to speculate about a possible motive — alleging without proof that unscrupulous developers or even the city itself may have orchestrated the acts.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Coursing through all of these elements is a seething anger at authoritarianism.—
Glenn Whipp,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Dec. 2024
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Cox and his team were brought in by a handful of wealthy Colorado ranch owners who were still seething over the ballot measure to introduce wolves that passed in 2020 by less than one percent.—
Chris Dorsey,
Forbes,
18 Dec. 2024
Verb
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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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Nearby sits a small wood-burning stove, which should be sufficient to heat the home.—
Adam Williams,
New Atlas,
3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Eyewitnesses described furious gales and hurricane-like winds that left an avalanche of debris near the pier.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
15 May 2025
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But even with a better offensive night for Jerome, he was still beaten off the dribble too many times and couldn’t stay on the court for that last, furious push.—
Eric Koreen,
New York Times,
14 May 2025
Verb
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Symptoms like a fast heart rate, or shortness of breath, shaking and chills, confusion or lethargy.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
24 Dec. 2024
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In the video, a terrified Archie can be seen frozen, staring and shaking.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Shinwell takes the rep aside and asks her to grab some of the antidote to the sickness that pushed Stephens into a coma, because the mad scientist must have some lying around.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
11 May 2025
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The late 19th century was a boom time for mad inventors, scam artists, and fast-talking salesmen.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
9 May 2025
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“Fuming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fuming. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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