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fume

verb as in get very upset about

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Donkey carts and tractors jostled for space with pickups and larger transport trucks, the diesel fumes mixing with dust and the salty sea air.

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Kaniecki said he has treated about a dozen pilots and over 100 flight attendants for brain injuries after exposure to fumes on aircraft over the last 20 years.

Despite its somewhat tendentious title and Nelson’s fuming belief that as a Latino he is seen as a loan risk, “The Other Americans” is not a dramatic screed denouncing the inequities of American culture.

Turns out the pressure of trying to carry the national team and one of Italy’s biggest clubs through an impossibly crowded fixture crunch had left him running on fumes.

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Praising the emergency crews, Harrison said she had been told some kind of "fumes" potentially from a generator were to blame, while the shop was being set up before opening.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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