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Blow a fuse Moderate

Blow a fuse has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

get very angry and fly into a rage

"The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"

"Spam makes me go ballistic"

2

To overload a circuit to the point that the fuse (or circuit breaker) protecting it triggers, opening the circuit.

Broader Terms (hypernyms)
rage
Rhyming Words
use cuse duse fuse euse ruse muse suse ause ouse zuse cause v use meuse kouse couse bouse druse mouse pause
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