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spleen

noun
🔊/spliːn/
🔊/spliːn/
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  1. [countable] a small organ near the stomach that controls the quality of the blood cells脾
    • a ruptured spleen破裂的脾
    Topics Bodyc2
  2. [uncountable] (literary) anger愤怒；怒气
    • He vented his spleen (= shouted in an angry way) on the assembled crowd.他把怒气撒在了聚集的人群身上。🔊🔊
    see also splenetic
    3. Word OriginMiddle English: shortening of Old French esplen, via Latin from Greek splēn; sense (2) derives from the earlier belief that the spleen was the seat of bad temper.