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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Anger; wrath. See Synonyms at anger.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Iron.
  2. n. Anger; wrath; keen resentment.
  3. n. Synonyms Vexation, Indignation, etc. See anger.
  4. To anger; fret; irritate.
  5. An abbreviation of Ireland.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Iron.
  2. n. literary, poetic Great anger; wrath; keen resentment.
  3. v. transitive To anger; to fret; to irritate.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. poet. Anger; wrath.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
  2. n. belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English ire, from Old French ire ("ire"), from Latin ira ("wrath, rage"), from Proto-Indo-European *eis- (“to fall upon, act sharply”) (compare Old English ofost ("haste, zeal"), Old Norse eisa ("to race forward"), Ancient Greek ἱερός (hierós, "supernatural, holy"), οἶστρος (oĩstros, "frenzy; gadfly"), Avestan aesma 'anger', Sanskrit eṣati 'it drives on'). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin īra; see eis- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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