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Anger   /ˈæŋgər/   Listen
Anger

noun
1.
A strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance.  Synonyms: choler, ire.
2.
The state of being angry.  Synonym: angriness.
3.
Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins).  Synonyms: ira, ire, wrath.
verb
(past & past part. angered; pres. part. angering)
1.
Make angry.
2.
Become angry.  Synonym: see red.






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"Anger" Quotes from Famous Books



... to raise himself up in the fit of anger which attacked him, but fell back with a groan. Fighting back the sensation of weakness, though, he spoke ...
— Fix Bay'nets - The Regiment in the Hills • George Manville Fenn

... cold water had pretty well quenched his fierce anger, and though he threatened a great deal he did not attempt to do anything till he was by the gate, where a buzz of voices outside ...
— Patience Wins - War in the Works • George Manville Fenn

... flute-like whistling of Harry Herndon's negro. Remembering his carelessness, I felt like going into the tavern and giving him a frailing. The inclination was so strong that I held my hand on the door-knob until the first flush of anger had subsided. It was a very fortunate thing for me, as it turned out, that Whistling Jim was present, but at the moment the turn of a hair would have caused me to justify much that the people of the North have said in regard to the cruelty of ...
— A Little Union Scout • Joel Chandler Harris

... he closed his eyes and remained for some seconds with his head projecting over the edge of the shelf before he shuffled himself back into his former position, and then lay panting till the breathlessness that had attacked him passed away, leaving a sensation of anger against himself ...
— The Peril Finders • George Manville Fenn

... a sigh. She went back to her party—they were gone. The carriage was just disappearing round a turn in the road. She looked at it with amazement, and even with anger. It seemed to her a brazen act of ...
— Put Yourself in His Place • Charles Reade


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