blood-boiling

English

Adjective

blood-boiling

  1. Extremely angry; furious.
    • 2005, Tom Anderson, Riding the Magic Carpet: A Surfer's Odyssey in Search of the Perfect Wave, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2015, Andrew Kaufman, Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times, →ISBN, page 6:
      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.
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