blood boiling
Rage beyond control
Blood boiling describes intense anger or outrage—the feeling that fury has literally heated your blood.
Almost always appears with a possessive: The injustice made my blood boil, His blood was boiling by the end of the meeting.
The image captures how anger feels physical, rising like temperature.
- furiousExtremely angry
- rageIntense, violent anger
- seeing redOvercome by fury
- seethingIntensely, quietly enraged
- lividExtremely angry or discolored
enraged · fit of rage · fuming · anger · flying off the handle · temper · losing it · indignant · outraged · infuriated · heated · hot under the collar · steaming · simmering · wrath · resentment · fury · incensed
- anger expressionssee red, seeing red, lose your temper, blow a fuse, blow a gasket
- ragerage, fury, wrath, enraged, furious
- body reactionssweating, blushing, shiver, goosebumps, twitch
- meltdownsnuclear meltdown, reactor meltdown, meltdown, freak out, losing it
physiological arousal
blood boilingcool-headed
Calm when stressed
relaxed · keeping one's cool · cold-blooded · chilled out · collected
blood, boil, bloody, bloodied, bloods, bloodless, bloodline, bloodshed, boils