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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



... up to my rooms, not wishing to be questioned. I had gone too far. Anger had made me say more than I intended. Baron Magnus did not deserve this thrust of mine. And also my instinct forewarned me of results to follow. I went to bed angry with myself, with the Baron, and with ...
— My Double Life - The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt • Sarah Bernhardt

... rails at the Israelites as slaves, sneers at their God as impotent and craven, lifts up the horn of Dagon, who, he says, shall pursue Jehovah as a falcon pursues a dove. The speech fills Samson with a divine anger, which bursts forth in a canticle of prayer and prophecy. There is a flash as of swords in the scintillant scale passages which rush upward from the eager, angry, pushing figure which mutters and ...
— A Second Book of Operas • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... another in Bettina's place. For a long time a passionate resentment possessed him. When he knew that Bettina had married his cousin, this resentment had had two objects to feed upon instead of one; but at first the bitterness of his anger against the being in whom he had supremely believed greatly outweighed that against the being in whom he had never believed. Lord Hurdly had never had it in his power to wound and anger him as ...
— A Manifest Destiny • Julia Magruder

... her pleasure began to crowd her anger out of her mind. She had not expected him to remember her at all and her hard little heart ...
— The Secret Garden • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... pull upon himself—as if a sudden thought had restrained him the moment he was about to rush on the Prophet. Indeed, he had remembered the two maidens, and the fatal hindrance which a duel, whatever might be the result, would occasion to their journey. But the impulse of anger, though rapid, had been so significant—the expression of the stern, pale face, bathed in sweat, was so daunting, that the Prophet and the spectators drew back ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue


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