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anger
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Word definitions for anger in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., "distress, suffering; anguish, agony," also "hostile attitude, ill will, surliness," from Old Norse angr "distress, grief. sorrow, affliction," from the same root as anger (v.). Sense of "rage, wrath" is early 14c. Old Norse also had angr-gapi ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an explosion of anger ▪ The verdict was greeted by an explosion of public anger. an expression of anger ▪ She tried to protect the children from his expressions of anger. anger/confidence/tension/hope etc drains away ...
Usage examples of anger.
Rumor ran through the station corridors, aboil with the confusion and anger of residents and companies that had been turned out with all their property.
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Their curiosity shewed me that the lady had told them of the secret, and with my astonishment there was some admixture of anger.
The laird stood his ground with much ado, though his face was often crimsoned over with the hues of shame and anger.
But how little I cared for her anger when I saw the cheerful, happy countenance, and the approving looks of my adored Lucrezia!
Anger and impatience trickled across her like the water in the agate pool.
The bright eyes flashed in impotent anger, and Ancar laughed, waving to the litter bearers to be on their way.
Deliberately she stepped back, letting Anele go as her anger took another form.
Her anger sustained and kept her head erect and her spine straight as she walked into the antechamber and shut the door.
I caressed her in a somewhat lively manner, and drew back my hand, again apologizing for my daring, and when she let me see her face I thought I saw delight rather than anger in her eyes and on her cheeks, and I felt hopeful with regard to her.
So he and the Armorer, despite their worry, anxiety and anger, tucked into the luncheon in the private room of the stern-wheeler.
The askew dimple gave his face an amused look, in spite of the fact that his eyes were black with anger.
All these things that happened, astonied the good man of the house, and the residue that were present, insomuch that they could not tell what to doe, or with what sacrifice to appease the anger of the gods.
His helmet was of old rusty iron, but the vizor was brass, which, tainted by his breath, corrupted into copperas, nor wanted gall from the same fountain, so that, whenever provoked by anger or labour, an atramentous quality, of most malignant nature, was seen to distil from his lips.
Et Avian turned, stooped, and crawled from the tent, not bothering to put on his helmet, anger providing sufficient heat to get him to his own tent.