anger

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to make angry

   The news angered them.

2. 2
   verb

   to become angry

   They anger easily if you bring up their past.

3. 3
   noun

   A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism, usually combined with an urge to yell, curse, damage or destroy things, or harm living beings, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, threat, insults, unfair or unjust treatment, or an undesired situation.

   vent one's anger

4. 4
   noun

   Pain or stinging.

   It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore; […]

5. 5
   verb

   To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.

   He who angers you conquers you.

6. 6
   verb

   To become angry.

   You anger too easily.

7. 7
   noun

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

8. 8
   noun

   a strong emotion

Etymology

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 (…