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What does apoplectic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (medicine) Of, or relating to apoplexy.
  2. Marked by extreme anger or fury.
  3. (archaic) Effused with blood.
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Editors were apoplectic, and they showed it by quitting en masse, leaving Mays to pick up the pieces.
He went apoplectic and I suddenly found myself marched off to the guardroom almost at running pace.
They've been helped by the fact that medical malpractice rates really are at record highs, and doctors are understandably apoplectic.
Have they started sulking for England, throwing apoplectic strops, slamming bedroom doors that shake the house to its very foundations?
I further wished him a happy Valentines Day and apoplectic attack with a smile.
But to see it damaged by nothing more than speculation and egotism was enough to drive some of those closely involved, well, apoplectic.

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