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make someone's blood boil

make someone's blood boil verb: to cause a person to feel angry or very annoyed, especially in situation in which one cannot fully display that feeling to others.

Verb

make someone's blood boil (third-person singular simple present makes someone's blood boil, present participle making someone's blood boil, simple past and past participle made someone's blood boil)

  1. (idiomatic) To cause a person to feel angry or very annoyed, especially in situation in which one cannot fully display that feeling to others.
    • Dove says it makes her blood boil to see the way the poor young gentleman is treated.1880, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 21, in Love and Life
    • The hypocritical smugness of the English makes my blood boil.1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter 23, in The Voyage Out

make someone's blood boil meaning in Hindi, Tagalog and Vietnamese

make someone's blood boil in Hindi

cause a person to feel angry
ख़ून खौलना xūn khaulnā

make someone's blood boil in Tagalog

cause a person to feel angry
kumukulo ang dugo

make someone's blood boil in Vietnamese

cause a person to feel angry
sôi máu, sôi bầu máu nóng

Forms of make someone's blood boil

third-person singular presentmakes someone's blood boil
present participlemaking someone's blood boil
past participlemade someone's blood boil
pastmade someone's blood boil

Questions about make someone's blood boil

What does make someone's blood boil mean?
Make someone's blood boil means to cause a person to feel angry or very annoyed, especially in situation in which one cannot fully display that feeling to others.
What is make someone's blood boil in Hindi?
Make someone's blood boil in Hindi is ख़ून खौलना (xūn khaulnā). See Make someone's blood boil meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is make someone's blood boil?
Make someone's blood boil is a verb.
What is the past tense of make someone's blood boil?
The past tense of make someone's blood boil is made someone's blood boil.

Words near make someone's blood boil in the dictionary

  1. make short work of
  2. make since
  3. make some noise
  4. make someone hard to catch
  5. make someone's acquaintance
  6. make someone's blood boil
  7. make someone's day
  8. make someone's ears sad
  9. make someone's flesh crawl
  10. make someone's flesh creep
  11. make someone's hair curl

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