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fulminate
verb. criticize harshly
  • animadvert
  • berate
  • blow up
  • bluster
  • castigate
  • censure
  • condemn
  • curse
  • declaim
  • denounce
  • denunciate
  • execrate
  • explode
  • fume
  • intimidate
  • inveigh against
  • menace
  • protest
  • rage
  • rail
  • reprobate
  • swear at
  • thunder
  • upbraid
  • vilify
  • vituperate

rage
verb. be angry
  • be beside oneself
  • be furious
  • be uncontrollable
  • blow a fuse
  • blow one's top
  • blow up
  • boil over
  • bristle
  • chafe
  • champ at bit
  • erupt
  • fly off the handle
  • foam at the mouth
  • fret
  • fulminate
  • fume
  • go berserk
  • have a fit
  • have a tantrum
  • let off steam
  • look daggers
  • make a fuss over
  • overflow
  • rail at
  • rampage
  • rant
  • rant and rave
  • rave
  • roar
  • scold
  • scream
  • seethe
  • snap at
  • splutter
  • steam
  • storm
  • surge
  • tear
  • throw a fit
  • work oneself into sweat
  • yell

rail
verb. criticize harshly
  • abuse
  • attack
  • bawl out
  • berate
  • blast
  • castigate
  • censure
  • chew out
  • complain
  • fulminate
  • fume
  • inveigh
  • jaw
  • objurate
  • rant
  • rate
  • revile
  • scold
  • thunder
  • tongue-lash
  • upbraid
  • vituperate
  • vociferate
  • whip

rant
verb. yell, rave
  • bellow
  • bloviate
  • blow one's top
  • bluster
  • carry on
  • clamor
  • cry
  • declaim
  • fume
  • harangue
  • mouth
  • objurgate
  • orate
  • perorate
  • rage
  • rail
  • roar
  • scold
  • shout
  • sizzle
  • soapbox
  • sound off
  • spiel
  • spout
  • storm
  • stump
  • take on
  • vociferate

rave
verb. talk endlessly
  • babble
  • be delirious
  • bloviate
  • blow one's top
  • carry on
  • come unglued
  • declaim
  • flip one's lid
  • freak out
  • fume
  • gabble
  • go ape
  • go bananas
  • go crazy
  • go mad
  • harangue
  • jabber
  • make a to-do
  • mouth
  • orate
  • perorate
  • prate
  • prattle
  • rage
  • rail
  • rant
  • rattle on
  • roar
  • run amuck
  • splutter
  • storm
  • talk wildly
  • thunder
  • wander

reek
verb. smell of; be characterized by
  • be permeated by
  • be redolent of
  • emit
  • fume
  • give off odor
  • have an odor
  • smell
  • smoke
  • steam
  • stench
  • stink

seethe
verb. be very angry
  • be furious
  • be incensed
  • be livid
  • be mad
  • be on the warpath
  • blow one's stack
  • blow up
  • boil
  • breathe fire
  • bristle
  • burn
  • ferment
  • flare
  • flip
  • foam
  • foam at mouth
  • froth
  • fume
  • hit the ceiling
  • rage
  • see red
  • simmer
  • smolder
  • spark
  • stew
  • storm

simmer
verb. boil, smolder
  • be agitated
  • be angry
  • be tense
  • be uptight
  • bubble
  • burn
  • churn
  • cook
  • effervesce
  • ferment
  • fizz
  • fret
  • fricassee
  • fume
  • parboil
  • rage
  • seethe
  • smart
  • sparkle
  • stew
  • stir
  • warm

smolder
verb. burn, simmer
  • boil
  • bubble
  • churn
  • consume
  • erupt
  • explode
  • ferment
  • fester
  • fulminate
  • fume
  • seethe
  • smoke
  • steam
  • stir
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Word Origin & History

fume late 14c., from O.Fr. fum "smoke, steam, vapor," from L. fumus "smoke" (v.), from PIE *dhumo- (cf. Skt. dhumah, O.C.S. dymu, Lith. dumai, O.Prus. dumis "smoke," M.Ir. dumacha "fog," Gk. thymos "spirit, mind, soul"). The verb is first recorded c.1400, from O.Fr. fumer, from L. fumare "to smoke, steam;" figurative sense of "show anger" is first recorded 1520s. Related: Fumed; fuming.

Example Sentences for fume

Dumoulin was hot-blooded, noisy, unmethodical, always in a state of fuss and fume!

Cynthia may fret and fume and stamp, but willy-nilly I shall carry her away.

He sat there frowning and biting his lip, and suddenly he began to fume and fret.

Men fret and fuss and fume, and are for ever in haste; the toad eyes them with contempt.

We glare and fume and could gladly see them all maced in sunder with battle-axes.

They could only stand with lowered heads and fume and rumble.

How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe And swear not Addison himself was safe.

Fiorsen was standing at the window in a fume of cigarette smoke.

He was obviously letting off the fume of long-unuttered disapprovals.

She put Wyvis into a fume about his honor; and so he asked me to marry him.

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