| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To madden, vex, annoy, displease or irritate.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To disturb or bother. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To enrage, incense or infuriate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To exasperate, provoke or instigate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To embitter or aggravate.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Present participle conjugation of the verb anger.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (anger) | 1. Make angry; "The news angered him".[Wordnet]. 2. Become angry; "He angers easily".[Wordnet]. 3. To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame.[Websters]. 4. To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: angering, angered, angers, angerer, angerers, angeringly and angeredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ANGERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references) |
Specialty Definition: anger
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Bible | Anger the emotion of instant displeasure on account of something evil that presents itself to our view. In itself it is an original susceptibility of our nature, just as love is, and is not necessarily sinful. It may, however, become sinful when causeless, or excessive, or protracted (Matt. 5:22; Eph. 4:26; Col. 3:8). As ascribed to God, it merely denotes his displeasure with sin and with sinners (Ps. 7:11). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | ||
| Dream Interpretation | 1: To dreams that friends or relatives are angry with you, while you meet their anger with composure, denotes you will mediate between opposing friends, and gain their lasting favor and gratitude. 2: To dream of anger, denotes that some awful trial awaits you. Disappointments in loved ones, and broken ties, of enemies may make new attacks upon your property or character. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Literature | 1: Tickell: The Horn Book. 2: And laid the storm, and cooled the raging heat." 3: Anger Athenodorus, the Stoic, told Augustus the best way to restrain unruly anger was to repeat the alphabet before giving way to it. (See Danger.) 4: "The sacred line he did but once repeat,. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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Common Expressions: anger
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Anger management | The term anger management commonly refers to a system of psychological therapeutic techniques and exercises by which one with excessive or uncontrollable anger can control or reduce the triggers, degrees, and effects of an angered emotional state. (references) | ||
| Hal Anger | Hal Oscar Anger (born 1920 in Denver, Colorado, USA) was an electrical engineer and biophysicist at Donner Laboratory, UCB. In 1957, he invented the scintillation camera, known also as the gamma camera or Anger camera. (references) | ||
| Kenneth Anger | Kenneth Anger (born February 3, 1927 in Santa Monica, California) is an underground avant-garde film-maker and author. (references) | ||
| Per Anger | Per Johan Valentin Anger (December 7, 1913 - August 26, 2002) was a Swedish diplomat who participated in efforts to rescue Hungarian Jews from arrest and deportation by the Nazis during World War II. (references) | ||
| The Upside of Anger | The Upside of Anger is a 2005 drama / comedy / romance written and directed by Michael Binder. Set in the Detroit area, it stars Joan Allen, Kevin Costner and Evan Rachel Wood amongst others. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: anger
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Interjection of anger | MultiLingual Slang | Occitan (colhons). (references) | |
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