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Fuming vs Raving - What's the difference?

fuming | raving |

As verbs the difference between fuming and raving

is that fuming is while raving is .

As adjectives the difference between fuming and raving

is that fuming is that fumes while raving is talking wildly.

As nouns the difference between fuming and raving

is that fuming is the act of one who fumes or shows suppressed anger while raving is (usually plural) wild, incoherent, or irrational talk.

As an adverb raving is

incoherently.

fuming

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • that fumes
  • very angry
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 2 , author=Kevin Core , title=Fulham 6 - 0 QPR , work=BBC Sport 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 acid

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who fumes or shows suppressed anger.
  • * 1840 , The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register
    • 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.
  • * 1986 , John B. Sanford, The Waters of Darkness
    • 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.
  • * 1949 , New Brunswick Laboratory, Assayer's Guide
    • 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.

    raving

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually plural) Wild, incoherent, or irrational talk.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Talking wildly.
  • Causing excitement or wild praise.
    • She was not considered a raving beauty.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Incoherently
    • He went stark, raving mad.