spleennoun
uk/spliːn/us/spliːn/spleen noun (ORGAN)
[ C ] an organ near the stomach that produces and cleans the body's blood
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Other major organs
- bladder
- cardiothoracic
- endocrine
- gall bladder
- gut
- hepatocellular
- kidney
- liver
- nephron
- pancreatic
- sense organ
- splanchnic
- splenic
- swim bladder
- tum
- vesica
- viscera
- vital organs
spleen noun (ANGER)
[ U ] formal a feeling of anger and disagreement:
mainly UK She threatened, in a fit/burst of spleen, to resign.
Shareholders used the conference as an opportunity to vent their spleen on (= get angry with) the Board of Directors.
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Anger and displeasure
- acrimonious
- anger
- animus
- annoyance
- bad feeling
- flap
- fuss
- get the hump idiom
- gorge
- grit
- grit your teeth idiom
- grudge
- hard feelings idiom
- irritation
- rancour
- resent
- resentful
- slow burn
- sour grapes idiom
- spite
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