Meaning of Fuming | Babel Free

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The act of one who fumes or shows suppressed anger.

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“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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