1
as in steams
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 storms
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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Humidity often corrodes cables and steams camera lenses.—
IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Nov. 2025
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The clip then smash-cuts to a scene of Bruce as a child listening to his parents fight in the next room, and we’re meant to understand that the joy and power that steams off of the stage is a cure for the pain of childhood wounds.—
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Rebecca storms off without another word.—
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Angelica rightly storms out of this conversation and seems determined to give this guy up.—
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The spectrum of radiation emitted from the little red dots suggested that before the JWST detected these rays of light, they got scattered off electrons in dense clouds of ionized gas in the centers of the little red dots.—
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The dry cold front will arrive midday, bringing passing clouds and gusty north winds of up to 35 mph.—
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Your light burns so bright in all our hearts!—
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Your light burns so bright in all our hearts!—
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Conflict rages over resources, but people are, for the most part, decent.—
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Then, a police-like force rages through their East Village neighborhood, threatening Renata’s friends, lovers, and the memories of those who have died.—
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Its carbon steel boils water quickly, while retaining heat.—
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Keep in mind that a covered pot boils faster than an uncovered one.—
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The river tumbles and seethes through 278 miles of Grand Canyon National Park, taking its geologic time in carving a trench now deeper than a mile.—
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This is why Dijon’s language works best as sound, not narrative—his rangy, raspy voice seethes and triumphs, mocks and threatens; there’s no world in which his polygonal perspective can be discerned from a lyric sheet.—
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“Fumes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fumes. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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