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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



... may sound, conveys the whole truth. Opium weakens or utterly paralyzes the lower propensities, while it invigorates and elevates the superior faculties, both intellectual and affectional. The opium-eater is without sexual appetite; anger, envy, malice, and the entire hell-brood claiming kin to these, seem dead within him, or at least asleep; while gentleness, kindness, benevolence, together with a sort of sentimental religionism, constitute ...
— The Opium Habit • Horace B. Day

... her best friends, which to her meant her keenest rivals and harshest critics, she grew rigid with anger. Her breath hurt her paining chest. No one thought to speak to the musicians, and seeing the floor filled, they began the waltz. Only part of the guests could see what had happened, and at once the others formed and commenced to dance. Gay couples came ...
— A Girl Of The Limberlost • Gene Stratton Porter

... fundamental movement Accuracy of memory overdone Activity of children, motor Adolescence biography and literature of characterized Agriculture Alternations of physical and psychic states Altruism of country children of woman, cutlet for Amphimixis, psychic, basis of Anger Anthropometry and ideal of gymnastics Arboreal life and the hand Art study Arts and crafts movement Associations devised or guided by adults Astronomy Athletic festivals in Greece Athletics as a conversation topic dangers and defects ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall

... the nonce a House of Commons, and Captain Standish was explaining the scheme he had arranged for organizing his little army, when again the solemnity of the meeting was invaded by shrill cries of alarm and anger, this time, however, in a solo rather than chorus, for goodwife Billington having taken the field, her more timid sisters ...
— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin

... down again. Externally he managed to keep pretty calm; but within, he was now boiling with anger, now chilled with apprehension. He no longer felt convinced that he was dealing with a madman. And if the old gentleman was sane, what, in God's name, had he to look for? What absurd or tragical adventure had befallen him? What countenance ...
— New Arabian Nights • Robert Louis Stevenson


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