(n.) Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.
(n.) A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury.
(v. t.) To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame.
(v. t.) To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.
Example Sentences:
(1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(2) Polls indicated that anger over the government shutdown, which was sharply felt in parts of northern Virginia, as well as discomfort with Cuccinelli's deeply conservative views, handed the race to McAuliffe, a controversial Democratic fundraiser and close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
(3) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(4) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
(5) Make Quinn stay with B613 I think it would be difficult to bring her back to the fold at Pope and Associates (unless they’re playing the long con and her infiltration of B613 is part of the plan), but her anger would be well utilized against her former coworkers.
(6) Republicans remain wary of a contentious debate on the divisive issue, which could anger their core voters and undercut potential electoral gains in the November elections when control of Congress will be at stake.
(7) Although it never really has a sense of fun and burns with ill-focused anger, The Paperboy represents a kind of triumph, surely, even if it's just in getting such high-profile actors to do such low-down deeds.
(8) The territory’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying, has become a lightning rod for the protesters’ anger .
(9) But instead, he is going to crack under public anger over the huge amounts senior bankers have been paying themselves.
(10) Was that misreading the mood music of the referendum?” He claimed that many Tories had expressed their anger directly to Rudd about the controversial policy, which has since been watered down.
(11) Even in the best case this would cause a serious shock to the UK economy.” The CBI report angered Brexit campaigners, who believe the government is trying to scare voters into supporting Britain remaining in the EU.
(12) The walk-out is by far the most serious confrontation with the government since the elevation of the conservative-led, three-party coalition to power in June – and, says unionists, underlines the scale of public anger over cuts that are widely seen to be unfair.
(13) There was already simmering anger over the deaths of civilians in US drone attacks aimed at alleged terrorists inside Pakistan and over an incident in February in which a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, shot dead two men on the street in Lahore he said were trying to rob him.
(14) Photograph: Rex Features If Brookstein had confined his anger to legitimate provocations, it would be easier to sympathise, for he seems to have suffered more than enough of them on The X Factor.
(15) I have in the past predicted anger, as the consequences of the recession for public spending become clear; I think the process of expressing that anger has barely begun.
(16) Photograph: Guardian Environmental activists now argue that if Obama fails to recognise that anger and block the pipeline, he could hurt his chances in the 2012 elections.
(17) Five needs were reported by more than 30% of the sample as not being met: 1) being able to talk about fears of the future, illness, or death; 2) being occupied and having things to do; 3) having up-to-date information about HIV; 4) having someone to help them with their feelings of depression, helplessness, anxiety, or anger; and 5) help for the patient's family.
(18) But I have heard from other people who have lost spouses in this way, and fathers and mothers, and anger is perfectly appropriate.
(19) The Kremlin has so far refrained from dealing with mounting anger against people from Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region, as well as migrant workers from central Asia, which has grown as the country's oil-fuelled economic boom has given way to the hardship of the global financial crisis.
(20) Denial, minimization, anger, withdrawal and noncompliance may occur.
Irate
Definition:
(a.) Angry; incensed; enraged.
Example Sentences:
(1) High among the range of issues was the media dominance of the Globo group (whose journalists were chased away from demonstrations by an irate mob), inefficient use of public funds, forced relocations linked to Olympic real estate developments, the treatment of indigenous groups, dire inequality and excessive use of force by police in favela communities.
(2) A retired man became irate as he detailed why he couldn’t stand her: her handling of the attack against the US consulate in Benghazi , her email scandal , her cosy ties to Wall Street.
(3) The station nearest the Itaquerão stadium that will host the World Cup's opening match on 12 June was damaged by irate commuters who kicked down the metal barriers at two entrances.
(4) With European taxpayers already irate that Greece will need yet more funds to keep afloat, the €130bn financial support load had previously been seen as a red line across which no EU government was willing to step.
(5) While the Andersons appeared to be coming around to a brokered surrender, Fry became increasingly irate, refusing to quiet down when the other occupiers said they couldn’t hear Fiore and Seim on the other end of the call.
(6) At his afternoon event, all is ambivalence: he's received as a hero, but then spends a good deal of his allotted hour taking questions – and mini-speeches – from irate members of the audience.
(7) "You can't transform sports without targets," he said, qualifying this by adding that South Africa would not be like Kenya and send swimmers to the Olympics to "drown in the pool" – provoking a Twitter backlash from irate Kenyans under #SomeoneTellSouthAfrica .
(8) Irate trade unionists took over Athens' ancient landmark as fury over an unprecedented package of austerity measures, agreed in return for a multibillion euro aid package from eurozone nations and the IMF, intensified.
(9) Tempers have flared elsewhere across the country as irate voters have disrupted public meetings held by Democratic members of Congress.
(10) Irecently read a post on a Swedish parenting website from an irate mother complaining that, when she took her young son to see a children's film, an ad was shown featuring a gay couple telling each other: "I love you."
(11) Increased irAT levels heralded rejection of the pancreatic allograft by 4 to 30 days (median 20 days) in 13 of the 16 rejecting animals (80%).
(12) Both acylation and deacylation are rate-determining for these substrates, while only deacylation irate-determining for methyl-N-acetyl-L-phenylalanylglycinate.
(13) An irate Murdoch began inundating Wolff with increasingly urgent messages on his voicemail, saying he had read four of the 17 chapters and had "grave concerns about the facts".
(14) My abiding memory of him will be him being taken to task by two irate locals about the state of the town centre, and David winning them over."
(15) Those irate British nimbys, along with the green groups who want to leave fossil fuels in the ground, are quite capable of making life miserable for the shale prospectors.
(16) The same gift of the gab that a good hotel manager deploys to schmooze an irate guest complaining about draughts made the difference between life and death; he cajoled and coaxed, flattered and deceived, lied and bribed.
(17) No advantage was seen in the determination of urinary IRI when compared to determination of urinary irAT.
(18) This decline was seen after the increase in serum irAT.
(19) The article also offers suggestions on dealing with the irate or frightened parent.
(20) Graft pancreatitis and allograft rejection were both accompanied by increased serum levels of immunoreactive anionic trypsin (irAT) in a porcine pancreatic allograft transplantation model.