fumed

[fyoomd] / fyumd /

VERB

get very upset about

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bristle chafe rave seethe

STRONG

anger boil burn rage rant smoke storm

WEAK

blow up get hot get steamed up

Antonyms

STRONG

be happy

WEAK

be calm

Example Sentences

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Former England striker Gary Lineker wrote on X that it "might be the worst VAR decision I've seen... extraordinary given the significance" and McInnes fumed at the call afterwards.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Then, at the regular Senate Republican Conference lunch on Aug. 6, 1974, Goldwater fumed, “There are only so many lies you can take, and now there has been one too many.”

From Salon • May 8, 2026

“What an outrageous and offensive insult that Chad just made to every legal immigrant in this state and in this country,” Hilton fumed.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

"The club and myself lost big tonight, it's unacceptable," fumed La Rochelle's head coach Ronan O'Gara, a two-time Champions Cup winner with Munster as a fly-half.

From Barron's • Jan. 18, 2026

Yet even as they fretted and fumed, something else was quietly at work among Ulbrickson’s boys.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown