anger

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A strong feeling you have when something has hurt, annoyed, or treated you unfairly.

   He could not hide his anger when he heard the news.

2. 2
   verb

   To make someone feel angry.

   The unfair decision angered many of the workers.

3. 3
   verb

   To become angry.

   He angers easily when people are late.

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Simplified etymology

Anger entered English in the Middle English period from Old Norse angr, “grief,” and the related verb angra, “to vex.” It was first used with those Old Norse senses, while its modern meanings developed in late Middle English.

From Middle English anger (“grief, pain, trouble, affliction, vexation, sorrow, wrath”), from Old Norse angr, ǫngr (“affliction, sorrow”) (compare Old Norse ang, ǫng (“troubled”)), from Proto-Germanic *angazaz (“grief, sorrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow, tied together”). Cognate with Danish anger (“regret, remorse”), Norwegian Bokmål anger (“regret, remorse”), Swedish ånger (“regret”), Icelandic angur (“trouble”), Old English ange, enge (“narrow, close, straitened, constrained, confined, vexed, troubled, sorrowful, anxious, oppressive, severe, painful, cruel”), German Angst (…

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