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ANGERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does angered mean? 

ANGERED (adjective)
  The adjective ANGERED has 1 sense:

1. marked by extreme angerplay

  Familiarity information: ANGERED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ANGERED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by extreme anger

Synonyms:

angered; enraged; furious; infuriated; maddened

Context example:

could not control the maddened crowd

Similar:

angry (feeling or showing anger)


 Context examples 


A question about the frequency an individual feels or felt angered by things outside their control during the last month.

(How Often Angered by Things Outside Your Control in the Last Month, NCI Thesaurus)

“Have a care, cousin,” he whispered; “for the sake of the Virgin have a care, for you have angered him.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And this at last angered her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

But my action angered the Wicked Witch of the East, for she had promised the old woman I should not marry the pretty Munchkin girl.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

This was not Bill's way, for he was easily angered by sharp words.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He ran over the violent speech the cub reporter had constructed for him, and, though at first he was angered by the fabrication, in the end he tossed the paper aside with a laugh.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Nothing angered and mortified me so much as the queen’s dwarf; who being of the lowest stature that was ever in that country (for I verily think he was not full thirty feet high), became so insolent at seeing a creature so much beneath him, that he would always affect to swagger and look big as he passed by me in the queen’s antechamber, while I was standing on some table talking with the lords or ladies of the court, and he seldom failed of a smart word or two upon my littleness; against which I could only revenge myself by calling him brother, challenging him to wrestle, and such repartees as are usually in the mouths of court pages.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Her tone and manner angered Amy, who began to put her boots on, saying, in her most aggravating way, "I shall go. Meg says I may, and if I pay for myself, Laurie hasn't anything to do with it."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Praise to the saints! it was not I who angered him,” said the fat Michel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I remember that once before you angered Father Stephen, and my tire-woman said that I lost more hair in seven days than ever before in a month.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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