fume
verb/fjuːm/
Frequency rank: #18,197 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
to feel or show great anger, often without expressing it openly.
Example sentence
He began to fume silently when he found out his idea had been stolen.
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