"blow a fuse" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: blows a fuse [present, singular, third-person], blowing a fuse [participle, present], blew a fuse [past], blown a fuse [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|blow<,,blew,blown> a fuse}} 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)
  1. (electricity) To overload a circuit sufficiently that a fuse protecting it melts away (or informally a circuit breaker trips), stopping current from flowing. Categories (topical): Electricity Synonyms: blow a gasket Translations (to cause an electrical circuit to break open by overloading it): faire sauter les plombs (French)
    Sense id: en-blow_a_fuse-en-verb-B-YrTJOH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 93 7 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 91 9 Disambiguation of English predicates: 69 31 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 90 10 Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics Disambiguation of 'to cause an electrical circuit to break open by overloading it': 87 13
  2. (informal) To lose one's temper; to become enraged. Tags: informal Translations (to lose one's temper): péter les plombs (French)
    Sense id: en-blow_a_fuse-en-verb-TPfJeza4 Disambiguation of "to lose one's temper": 3 97

Inflected forms

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