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blood-boiling

blood-boiling adjective: extremely angry; furious.

Adjective

blood-boiling

  1. Extremely angry; furious.
    • Just as our combined anticipation was starting to build to a blood-boiling crescendo, the swell lines disappeared from underneath us, intercepted by the coastline of approaching islands to our north.2005, Tom Anderson, Riding the Magic Carpet: A Surfer's Odyssey in Search of the Perfect Wave, →ISBN
    • The bearded Russian sage who inspired both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King couldn't resist a blood-boiling bayonet fight, or a good duel with an old writer friend who had insulted him.2015, Andrew Kaufman, Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times, →ISBN, page 6

Questions about blood-boiling

What does blood-boiling mean?
Blood-boiling means extremely angry; furious.
What part of speech is blood-boiling?
Blood-boiling is an adjective.

Words near blood-boiling in the dictionary

  1. blood wursts
  2. blood, sweat and tears
  3. blood, sweat, and tears
  4. blood-and-guts
  5. blood-and-gutsy
  6. blood-boiling
  7. blood-brain barrier
  8. blood-brain barriers
  9. blood-cell
  10. blood-cells
  11. blood-chiller

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