Spleen - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|spliːn|
Brit.
|spliːn|
noun
- a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses (syn: lien)
- a feeling of resentful anger (syn: irascibility)
- a feeling of resentful anger (syn: irascibility)
Extra examples
...vented her spleen and felt much better for having done so...
...the bill's failure to pass in the legislature was due to nothing more than partisan spleen...
She flashed into a fit of spleen.
The meeting gave us a chance to vent our spleen (=anger).
Word forms
noun
singular: spleen
plural: spleens
singular: spleen
plural: spleens
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