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Definition of 'anger'Noun
A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.
*{{quote-magazine|date=2013-06-28|author=(Joris Luyendijk)
|volume=189|issue=3|page=21|magazine=( The Guardian Weekly)
|title= Our banks are out of control
|passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger , leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
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(obsolete) Pain or stinging.
* {{quote-book|1660||3= Mensa mystica |page=322|year_published=1717
|passage=It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore;
* Temple
- I made the experiment, setting the moxa where the greatest anger and soreness still continued.
Synonyms
* (strong feeling of antagonism)
* See also
Derived terms
( )
* angerful
* angerless
* angry
( der-mid)
* anger management
* in anger
( der-bottom)
Verb
( en-verb)
To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
- Don't anger me.
To become angry.
- You anger too easily.
Synonyms
* (to cause anger) enrage, infuriate; annoy, vex, grill, displease; aggravate, irritate
* (to become angry) get angry (see angry for more)
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