spleen

noun/spliːn/

Frequency rank: #11,328 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

feelings of anger or bad temper; also an abdominal organ involved in filtering blood.

Illustration for the English word “spleen”

Example sentence

After losing the match, he vented his spleen on anyone who came near him.

Synonyms & related words

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