Anger vs Fuming - What's the difference?
anger | fuming |
A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.
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, title= (obsolete) Pain or stinging.
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, passage=It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore;
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To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
To become angry.
that fumes
very angry
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The act of one who fumes or shows suppressed anger.
* 1840 , The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register
* 1986 , John B. Sanford, The Waters of Darkness
* 1949 , New Brunswick Laboratory, Assayer's Guide
As nouns the difference between anger and fuming
is that anger is remorse, regret while fuming is the act of one who fumes or shows suppressed anger.As a verb fuming is
.As an adjective fuming is
that fumes.anger
English
(wikipedia anger)Noun
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger , leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
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- I made the experiment, setting the moxa where the greatest anger and soreness still continued.
Synonyms
* (strong feeling of antagonism) * See alsoDerived terms
() * angerful * angerless * angry * anger management * in angerVerb
(en verb)- Don't anger me.
- You anger too easily.
Synonyms
* (to cause anger) enrage, infuriate; annoy, vex, grill, displease; aggravate, irritate * (to become angry) get angry (see angry for more)References
* * Notes:Anagrams
* ----fuming
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=The first Premier League hat-trick by a Fulham player was taken in fine style, but it also exposed a slack defensive display which left QPR manager Neil Warnock fuming on the sidelines.}}
Derived terms
* fuming sulphuric acidNoun
(en noun)- He fumed, and threatened, and stormed; but his fumings , and threatenings, and stormings, were powerless to turn from him the keen edge of public ridicule.
- And endlessly you'd read his fumings against the running dogs of capitalism, against the lackeys and the lumpen — and against you for being unable to collect a bill from his debtor.
- Evaporate, fume again, cool and wash down the sides of the beaker and watch glass, and then fume again. Your fumings are necessary to remove the cupferron decomposition products and nitric acid from the solution.