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furious

/ˈfjʊɹi.əs/ adjective B2
  1. Feeling great anger; raging; violent. · a furious animal; parent furious at their child's behaviour
  2. Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence. · a furious stream; a furious wind or storm
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The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and shouting “Off with his head!” or “Off with her head!” about once in a minute.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 63 · B2
Shere Khan had jumped at a woodcutter’s campfire, as Father Wolf had said, and was furious from the pain of his burned feet.
The Jungle Book, p. 5 · B2
Then he stretched out his arms, and yawned in the face of the Council; but he was furious with rage and sorrow, for, wolflike, the wolves had never told him how they hated him.
The Jungle Book, p. 25 · B2
Then they would howl and shriek senseless songs, and invite the Jungle-People to climb up their trees and fight them, or would start furious battles over nothing among themselves, and leave the dead monkeys where the Jungle-People could see them.
The Jungle Book, p. 36 · B2

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