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Angering

Anger \An"ger\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Angered; p. pr. & vb. n. Angering.] [Cf. Icel. angra.]

  1. To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame. [Obs.]

    He . . . angereth malign ulcers.
    --Bacon.

  2. To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.

    Taxes and impositions . . . which rather angered than grieved the people.
    --Clarendon.

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angering

vb. (present participle of anger English)

Usage examples of "angering".

When silence stretched, he continued, "Somebody, anybody, then, please tell me, where can we plant this shrine in the ground in the village without angering anyone?

It is a boy by another woman, a child he does not openly acknowledge, perhaps from fear of angering Mrs.

The aerial roots, pale wands hanging plumb-straight down from the upper tree, betrayed her, and she did indeed fall plump into that vile black stinking mud, angering the small fishes that skipped on its surface, the many kinds of crab, and the little mud-tortoises that preyed on both.

The thin cloud, though low, seemed if anything to increase the power of the sun, which showed right through the day, a vast ball, tolerable to narrowed eyes yet so powerful that, as all hands had foreseen, it brought the tar dripping black on the holy deck, angering the cats beyond description.

Princess she may be, and daughter of his loins - but if he had not publicly forgiven her, she would have been stoned to death for angering him.

How can you hope to succeed, if you risk angering the very men who control the knowledge, skill, and position you crave?

Havelock had taken the risk of angering both the King and the Congery by providing her with some of Mordant's history, and she didn't mean to betray what he had done for her.

And if she's an Imager secretly-if she's the augured champion of Mordant's need-then you're wrong to risk angering her against us.