blow a fuse (English, verb)
expansion: blow a fuse (third-person singular simple present blows a fuse, present participle blowing a fuse, simple past blew a fuse, past participle blown a fuse)
Senses:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To overload a circuit sufficiently that a fuse protecting it melts away (or informally a circuit breaker trips), stopping current from flowing.
glosses: To lose one's temper; to become enraged.
tags: idiomatic
informal
Forms:
form: blows a fuse
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blowing a fuse
tags: participle
present
form: blew a fuse
tags: past
form: blown a fuse
tags: participle
past