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adjective

Definition of fumingnext
as in angry
feeling or showing anger I was fuming after losing the game by a single point

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fuming

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verb

present participle of fume
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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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 Synonyms for fuming
  1. angry
  2. raging
  3. indignant
  4. seething
  5. burning
  6. furious
  7. shaking
  8. mad
Adjective
  • Waves of immigration have sparked an angry ethno-nationalism that advantages ideological extremes.
    Charles A. Kupchan, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • There’s also a troubling recurrent theme of angry, violent, and/or distraught mothers, who we are asked to watch suffer or inflict suffering on others time and time again.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of angry
Verb
  • Then the truck flipped over, sending the workers into the raging water.
    Travis Loller, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Here is the list of fighters that gained immortality as a result of this raging inferno.
    Interesting Engineering, Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of raging
Adjective
  • While residents had been protesting the order to vacate since it was issued in November, the tenor of their demonstrations, and the rhetoric surrounding the government’s response, took on a darker, more indignant tone in early December, following the arrest of Vivian Hernandez.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2025
  • And no other post-World War II president faced a powerful Asian adversary like today’s China: large, resourceful, indignant, and determined to claim the central regional position.
    Michael J. Green, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2022
Definition of indignant
Verb
  • Coursing through all of these elements is a seething anger at authoritarianism.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Definition of seething
Verb
  • 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
  • Advertisement The burning ban stems from Senate Bill 705, legislation signed in 2003 that aimed to phase out agricultural burning in the San Joaquin Valley by 2010.
    Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of burning
Adjective
  • After winning the division to host the championship game, Boston owner and franchise founder George Preston Marshall was furious with the local fans and decided to move the championship game away from his home field to a neutral location: The Polo Grounds in New York.
    Mark Puleo, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Senate Democrats are furious that President-elect Trump has reached out to conservative Justice Samuel Alito amid a push by Trump for the high court to halt his criminal sentencing.
    Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of furious
Verb
  • Symptoms like a fast heart rate, or shortness of breath, shaking and chills, confusion or lethargy.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Your ruler Mercury will also station retrograde in Sagittarius—your seventh house of partnerships—on November 9, revealing all the ways your desires for independence may be shaking things up with up your closest allies and enemies.
    Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of shaking
Adjective
  • Everton had many mad weeks under former owner Farhad Moshiri, but this one has rivalled them.
    Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The elaborate choreography and colorful vision match Vincente Minnelli’s style but underneath carry a delirious energy equal to Ken Russell’s maddest visions of neurotic excess.
    Armond White, National Review, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of mad
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