anger

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  1. noun A strong feeling of displeasure or hostility.
  2. transitive verb To make angry; enrage or provoke.
  3. intransitive verb To become angry: She angers too quickly.
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  • A post that everyone -- primary or secondary IF -- will be able to relate to as the anger is almost tangible. —  Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters
  • But the anger was already beginning to drain away. —  Wraithbait
  • But the anger was also fuelled by the breakdown in trust between the police and the general public. —  The Guardian World News
  • Some of the anger was also lodged towards poker pro Layne Flack, who apparently has little problem remaining buddies with Hamilton. —  Gambling911.com RSS News Feed
  • Maybe their anger is a cost worth paying for other important policy goals. —  Marc Lynch
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rage ·  indignation ·  anxiety ·  emotion ·  wrath ·  frustration ·  bitterness ·  panic ·  shame ·  laughter

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anger:   angering ·  angered ·  angers
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old Norse angr, sorrow; see angh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English anger, grief, pain, trouble, affliction, vexation, sorrow, also wrath, from Icelandic angr, masculine, now neuter (cf. öngur, feminine plural), grief, sorrow, straits, anxiety, = Swedish ånger = Danish anger, compunction, penitence, regret; cf. OFries. angst, ongost = Old High German angust, Middle High German angest, German angst, anxiety, anguish, fear, used adjectively, anxious, afraid (later Danish angst, n., fear; adjective, anxious, afraid; the Icelandic angist, anguish, occurring especially in theological writers, and resting on the ult. related L. angustia, later English anguish, q. v.), with different formative from the same root which appears in Icelandic öngr, narrow, strait, = Anglo-Saxon ange, onge, reg. with umlaut ænge, enge, narrow, strait, also anxious, troubled (cf. in comp. angsum, narrow, strait, anxious, angsumnes, and angnes, anxiety; and cf. angnægl, English agnail, q. v.), = Old Saxon engi = Old High German angi, engi, Middle High German enge, German eng = Gothic (Moesogothic) aggwus, narrow, strait, = Greek ἐγγύς, also ἂγχι, adverb, near, close, = Sanskrit ahu, narrow, strait, √ ah, be narrow or distressing, the root appearing also in Greek ἂγχειν = Latin angere, compress, strangle, choke (later L. angina, compression, anxiety, angor, anguish, anxiety, angustus, narrow, strait, anxius, anxious, etc.: see angor = anger, angust, anguish, anxious, etc.), and being widely extended in Slavic: Old Bulgarian azŭkŭ, narrow, Russian uzĭ, narrow, uzina, a strait, defile, etc., Old Bulgarian vezati = Bohemian vazati = Russian vyazatĭ, etc., bind, tie.
  2. from Middle English angren, angeren, pain, trouble, vex, from Icelandic angra = Swedish ångra = Danish angre, in similar sense; from the noun.
 

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