fume
verb [I] /fjuːm/Definition
› to be very angry, sometimes without expressing it: I saw her a week after they'd had the argument and she was still fuming. The whole episode left me fuming at the injustice of it all.Becoming angry and expressing anger
(Definition of fume verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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