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Anger and Angry Definitions

Anger

A strong feeling of displeasure or hostility.

Angry

Feeling or showing anger; incensed or enraged
Angry at my boss.
Angry with her.

Anger

To make angry; enrage or provoke.

Angry

Indicative of or resulting from anger
An angry silence.

Anger

To become angry
She angers too quickly.
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Angry

Having a menacing aspect; threatening
Angry clouds on the horizon.

Anger

A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, or threat.
You need to control your anger.

Angry

Chiefly New England & Midland US Inflamed and painful
An angry sore.

Anger

(obsolete) Pain or stinging.

Angry

Displaying or feeling anger.
His face became angry.
An angry mob started looting the warehouse.
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Anger

(transitive) To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.
He who angers you conquers you.

Angry

(said about a wound or a rash) inflamed and painful.
The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.

Anger

(intransitive) To become angry.
You anger too easily.

Angry

Dark and stormy, menacing.
Angry clouds raced across the sky.

Anger

Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.
I made the experiment, setting the moxa where . . . the greatest anger and soreness still continued.
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Angry

Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous.
God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit.

Anger

A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury.
Anger is likeA full hot horse, who being allowed his way,Self-mettle tires him.

Angry

Inflamed and painful, as a sore.

Anger

To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame.
He . . . angereth malign ulcers.

Angry

Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; - followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing.
Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves.
Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice?

Anger

To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.
Taxes and impositions . . . which rather angered than grieved the people.

Angry

Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves.

Anger

A strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance

Angry

Red.
Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave.

Anger

The state of being angry

Angry

Sharp; keen; stimulated.
I never ate with angrier appetite.

Anger

Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Angry

Feeling or showing anger;
Angry at the weather
Angry customers
An angry silence
Sending angry letters to the papers

Anger

Make angry;
The news angered him

Angry

(of the elements) as if showing violent anger;
Angry clouds on the horizon
Furious winds
The raging sea

Anger

Become angry;
He angers easily

Angry

Severely inflamed and painful;
An angry sore

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