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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wrath
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
incur sb’s displeasure/wrath/disapproval etc
▪ She wondered what she’d done to incur his displeasure this time.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
bring
▪ It was this implied indictment that was soon to bring so much wrath down on his head.
▪ They have cleared their shelves of anything that could offend the public or bring down the wrath of the tabloids.
▪ The destruction of beauty, in any of its forms, is sure to bring up wrath and sadness.
incur
▪ If any of the beaters did incur his wrath, they were sent home.
▪ To use live penguins, while adding an audible dimension, might incur the wrath of the animal rights lobby.
▪ Dhalia produced some effective, speedy long range punching but also incurred the wrath of referee Ron Hackett for frequent clinching.
▪ To deny this magic is to incur the wrath of a great number of people.
▪ Always a forthright woman, she incurred the wrath of the anti-abolitionists and her life was threatened.
▪ This incurred great wrath on the part of my father, who finally issued an execution order.
risk
▪ The local shop girls never risked her wrath.
▪ Say it for publication, and risk the wrath of the judges?
▪ He decided to risk the wrath of the hospital authorities.
▪ Mrs Gore even risked the wrath of the record industry by campaigning to have warning labels put on particularly offensive records.
▪ I will not risk Penumbra's wrath.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the king's wrath
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He would have to be prepared for Godolphin's wrath.
▪ It was this implied indictment that was soon to bring so much wrath down on his head.
▪ The local shop girls never risked her wrath.
▪ White had to flee to London to escape the wrath of Cavaliers, and he was old and ailing when he returned.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wrath

Wrath \Wrath\ (?; 277), n. [OE. wrathe, wra[thorn][thorn]e, wrethe, wr[ae][eth][eth]e, AS. wr[=ae][eth][eth]o, fr. wr[=a][eth] wroth; akin to Icel. rei[eth]i wrath. See Wroth, a.]

  1. Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire.

    Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed.
    --Spenser.

    When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased.
    --Esther ii. 1.

    Now smoking and frothing Its tumult and wrath in.
    --Southey.

  2. The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime. ``A revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.''
    --Rom. xiii. 4.

    Syn: Anger; fury; rage; ire; vengeance; indignation; resentment; passion. See Anger.

Wrath

Wrath \Wrath\, a. See Wroth. [Obs.]

Wrath

Wrath \Wrath\, v. t. To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally. [Obs.] ``I will not wrathen him.''
--Chaucer.

If him wratheth, be ywar and his way shun.
--Piers Plowman.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wrath

Old English wræððu "anger," from wrað "angry" (see wroth) + -þu, from Proto-Germanic -itho (as in strength, width etc.; see -th (2)).

Wiktionary
wrath

  1. (context rare English) wrathful; very angry. n. Great anger. v

  2. (context obsolete English) To anger; to enrage.

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WordNet
wrath

  1. n. intense anger (usually on an epic scale)

  2. belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: anger, ire, ira]

Wikipedia
Wrath (comics)

The Wrath is the name of two fictional comic book supervillains published by DC Comics. The original Wrath debuted in Batman Special #1 (1984), and was created by Mike W. Barr and Michael Golden. The second Wrath debuted in Batman Confidential #13 (March 2008), and was created by Tony Bedard and Rags Morales.

Wrath (Iris album)

Wrath is the third album by electropop group Iris, released in 2005. Taking the organic style of Awakening and adding guitars, they created this album with "more of a 'rock' feel" than a "'club' feel".

Wrath (Lamb of God album)

Wrath is the fifth studio album by American groove metal band Lamb of God. It was internationally released on February 23, 2009 via Roadrunner Records, and on February 24, 2009 via Epic Records in the U.S. It achieved number 2 on Billboard 200, with sales exceeding 68,000 in the U.S. during its first week of release. As of 2010 it has sold over 202,000 copies in the United States.

Wrath (2011 film)

Wrath is a 2011 Australian horror film written and directed by Jonathan N Dixon. Starring Stef Dawson, Corey Page, William Emmons, Xavier Fernandez, Rebecca Ratcliff, Michael Windeyer& Charlie Falkner, in the lead roles. The film was inspired by revenge films of the 1970s, including The Last House on the Left (1972) and I Spit on Your Grave (1978).

Wrath (disambiguation)

Wrath or anger, usually associated with violence, violent reaction, or acting out.

Wrath may also refer to:

  • Wrath as one of the Seven deadly sins in Roman Catholic doctrine
  • Wrath (comics), two fictional supervillains (1984 and 2008)
  • Wrath (Iris album), an Iris album
  • Wrath (Lamb of God album), a Lamb of God album
  • Wrath, a character in the Fullmetal Alchemist anime and manga
  • "The Wrath", a song by Vader from the album De Profundis
  • Wrath Records, UK independent record label
  • Bryan Clark (born 1964), wrestler using ring name Wrath
  • "Wrath", episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 3)
  • Cape Wrath, Sutherland, Scotland
    • Cape Wrath (album), 1979 Morrissey album
    • Cape Wrath (TV series), 2007 British TV series
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Usage examples of "wrath".

The maritime cities, and of these the infant republic of Ragusa, implored the aid and instructions of the Byzantine court: they were advised by the magnanimous Basil to reserve a small acknowledgment of their fidelity to the Roman empire, and to appease, by an annual tribute, the wrath of these irresistible Barbarians.

Ignorant priests or astrologers administered drugs, concerning the properties of which they had no knowledge, to appease the wrath of mythological deities.

If there was one thing that terrified me above all others, it was not daring the wrath of the Master of the Straits nor the dangers of distant Alba and the blue-tattooed Cruithne.

It was a most effective disguise and would hide her from any Aldermanic wrath.

This put my picaro amigo into a black mood, and I spent the day away from the camp to keep the wrath of his boot toe away from my backside.

Alex, now a sensing Animist, could feel the magical wrath of the spirits.

But evidently she saw him as a lesser enemy and focused her wrath on the Asper snake.

Bodin, I say, lived on a small estate he had purchased, and attributed all the agricultural misfortunes he met with in the course of the year to the wrath of an avenging Deity.

The wrath of the king was now terrible to behold, and assembling his council, he bade them decide how he should punish the wretch who had twice ill treated his messengers.

The lightning of divine wrath would flash from his eyes and small beadlets of thunder would drop from his brow.

And then the two ladies put their heads together, bethinking themselves how they might best deprecate the wrath of Lady Lufton.

And then Hera bethought her of the counsels and wrath of Zeus concerning them.

Finally, to fill the cup of wrath against her, she had sunk a blockader off the coast of Texas, given the slip to a Union manof-war at the Cape of Good Hope, and kept the Navy guessing her unanswered riddles for two whole years.

With that he abruptly rose and abandoned the table, leaving me to breathe a sigh of relief at having successfully handed Agent Bowman another likely target for his wrath.

When the wrath of his father-in-law had been appeased, Baldwin, now responsible for the defence of Flanders, came to Bruges with his wife, and there established his Court.