to fume
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6.3
- verb
- /fjuːm/
:
enfurecerse
- Well, I went to see Corcoran, I was fuming!
I'd say more than fuming, just like frustrated.
- I'd say more than fuming, just like frustrated.
- So we we were fuming with that.
- And the managers come fuming, fuming in the office, slammed something down on the table.
- I'm fuming, fuming, fuming, fuming, fuming.
- We got to the ranch and I sat outside fuming.
- Brushing your teeth, which I didn't know because I'd have been fuming.
- And I was like, don't you dare Yeah, I was fuming.
- Broccoli Casserole Brawl Facebook Helen, an older woman on Facebook is fuming.
- So I was filming, he's fucking fuming.
- So anyway, so this guy says what he says and then, you know, I look at him and I'm just fuming.
- She arrived last in her pre booked limo, absolutely fuming that no one else showed up to the limo meeting spot at the airport.
- There's always fuming, you know, I said for what?
Examples
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"I hope he gets beat by a count of thirty in the first round," Maddox fumed.
Academic text (2011) -
He just sat there through the rest of the meal fuming, not saying a word.
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Oh my God, people are fuming on this train.
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I was fuming, and I had a few drinks.
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Yeah, I was fuming, like, because it just didn't seem like it made sense.
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Knowing Cristiano, I know for a fact that he will be absolutely fuming right now.
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Okay, so now Emmet is fuming.
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It's the trademark suit that's got me fuming.
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Her son-in-law picked himself up; he fumed with rage, towering threateningly above her.
Fiction book (1995) -
He was fuming in silence after being unfairly blamed for the mistake.
Synonyms
18
7.3
To feel very angry but not show it
9
6.7
To feel strong anger or hurt without showing it
8
5.6
To feel very angry inside without showing it
1
7.4
To feel very angry while trying not to show it
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
How Angry
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fume meaning 'be very angry' uses the image of fumus 'smoke' to make a picture of someone 'giving off smoke' with rage. That is why we say a person is fuming when they are quietly but strongly angry.