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anger
[ ang-ger ]
noun
- a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire.
Synonyms: spleen, bile, choler, exasperation, resentment
- Chiefly British Dialect. pain or smart, as of a sore.
- Obsolete. grief; trouble.
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
- to become angry:
He angers with little provocation.
anger
/ ˈæŋɡə /
noun
- a feeling of great annoyance or antagonism as the result of some real or supposed grievance; rage; wrath
verb
- tr to make angry; enrage
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Other Words From
- anger·less adjective
- un·angered adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of anger1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of anger1
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Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
If Christie was not a presidential aspirant with an anger-management problem, the episode might not even make the list.
Neither is unnerved by her apparent anger, nor do they see her as threatening.
Most of us have an unhealthy relationship with anger, writes author and psychologist Andrea Brandt.
But instead of just quietly releasing a statement through a publicist, she broadcasted her anger far and wide.
Anger often manifests in withholders as another self-destructive but more socially acceptable feeling or behavior, like anxiety.
Instinctively he tried to hide both pain and anger—it could only increase this distance that was already there.
Then she put her anger from her; put from her, too, the insolence and scorn with which so lavishly she had addressed him hitherto.
Say that my anger has no bounds—that my heart is breaking—will break and kill me, if he persists in his ingratitude and cruelty.
All these exhibitions of temper and anger result from what I have pointed out to your Majesty in many other letters.
Uncle David felt for a moment so transported with anger, that I think he was on the point of striking him.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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