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Old English anger, angre (affliction, anger) < Icelandic angr (affliction, sorrow); akin to Danish anger (regret), Swedish anger (regret), Old English ange (oppressed, sad), Latin angor (a strangling, anguish), angere (to strangle), Greek άγχω (to strangle), Sanskrit amhas (pain), and to (anguish, anxious, quinsy), and perhaps awe (ugly). The word seems to have originally meant "to choke", "squeeze".

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Singular
anger

Plural
uncountable

anger (uncountable)

  1. A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.
    You need to control your anger.
  2. (obsolete) Pain or stinging.
    • 1660, Simon Patrick, Mensa mystica, published 1717, page 322,  
      It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore; []

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Infinitive
to anger

Third person singular
angers

Simple past
angered

Past participle
angered

Present participle
angering

to anger (third-person singular simple present angers, present participle angering, simple past and past participle angered)

  1. (transitive) To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
    Don't anger me.
  2. (intransitive) To become angry.
    You anger too easily.

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From Old Norse angr

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anger m. (definite singular angeren; indefinite plural angerer; definite plural angerene)

  1. remorse

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anger

  1. present tense of ange
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