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
Brian Truitt, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
Her initial response may have been exasperated, fuming, Leave me alone.
—Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
California’s move to abandon a plan revamping the state’s antiquated 911 system, after spending hundreds of millions on the project, has critics fuming.
—Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 24 Nov. 2025
Democrats are fuming that the bipartisan Senate deal to reopen the government after 43 days did nothing to address the expiring ObamaCare subsidies that stood as their key demand throughout the impasse.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 14 Nov. 2025
Prior to the vote, many Democrats were fuming after the breakaway group of eight senators teamed up with Republicans to strike a deal, backing off on the demand that led to the shutdown.
—Christian Orozco, NBC news, 11 Nov. 2025
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
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After fuming and throwing a trash can in the aftermath, Marty falls into a mental spiral.
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Robby is angry at himself for not seeing it.—
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None of the referees appeared to be struck by the objects being thrown on the court, despite video showing a windfall of debris raining down from the angry crowd.—
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Our Test Kitchen used a thin, 12-inch cast-iron skillet and the high heat transferred well in this pan and allowed for some charring, but also steaming due to the high volume.—
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Place the bowl inside the microwave and heat on high for around three to four minutes, or until the solution is visibly steaming.—
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Really storming winds were coming, and during the whole shooting, this stormy wind never stops.—
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But the Bills have won three straight road games, pummeling the Pittsburgh Steelers, storming back to beat the New England Patriots and holding on against the Cleveland Browns.—
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Things eventually come to a head back in Cairo, where local police arrest Roper and his team, only for the enraged buyers, who were defrauded due to Pine's intervention, to seize the convoy.—
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If not for the deeply funny asides and anecdotes from the book’s fictional characters, the reader would be left enraged and shaking.—
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Last January, fires were raging across Los Angeles, smothering some 20 million people across the region in toxic smoke and ash.—
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Many quite authentic Natives were targeted for banishment, and the ugly infighting their work inspired was covered widely—by the standards of Indian affairs—in the American media, which saw the battles as part of the larger identity wars raging across the nation in the new millennium.—
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If people are outraged that Trump seeks regime change in Venezuela to control the country's oil, that's news.—
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Families physically pulled apart by uncaring hands over the outraged screams of the bereft?—
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Still seething after a sloppy 19-16 loss to the Detroit Lions, Johnson wasn’t hiding his dissatisfaction with a defeat that seemed to diminish his team’s momentum.—
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Pure evil from a woman seething over rejection.—
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Mansfield Park contains a slow burning love story with Fanny’s cousin Edmund and delicious subplots concerning two charming, selfish siblings, but of chief interest are Fanny’s two aunts.—
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This is sufficient to power 40,000 households while helping save 64,000 tons of carbon emissions that would be released if this energy were generated by burning fossil fuels such as coal.—
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“Fuming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fuming. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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