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  1. short fusenoun

    The personality trait of being quick to anger.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of short fuse in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of short fuse in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of short fuse in a Sentence

  1. Kamala Harris:

    People with PTSD tend to act out. They tend to self-medicate. Which means they're going to be on drugs or they may be an alcoholic. And then they're going to get into fights and they have a really short fuse. And guess what happens ? All of a sudden you don't qualify for VA. That's wrong because again we are not taking into account the way we have designed or enforcing the system the realities of that person's life. It's backwards !

  2. Robert Hanlon:

    These crimes are often preventable if family members are more informed about the potential danger from having someone who is severely mentally ill in the home and who may have shown violent tendencies in the past, family members may lull themselves into a state of false beliefs thinking ‘ my son would never hurt me ’ or ‘ my husband may have a short fuse but he would never seriously harm me. ’.

  3. Michael Kelly:

    [Trump becoming president] worries the hell out of me because he's displayed this short fuse, if he doesn't like something he's going to yell or he's going to be belittle someone or he's going to make demeaning remarks to different races, to women, to whoever he's disagrees with. Imagine that scenario playing out around the world.


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