Noun

A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger , leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}

(obsolete) Pain or stinging.

* {{quote-book, 1660, , 3= Mensa mystica, page=322, year_published=1717

, passage=It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore;

* Temple

I made the experiment, setting the moxa where the greatest anger and soreness still continued.

Noun

(en noun) (US)

The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.

Anything employed to oppose attack(s).

# A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.

# The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.

An argument in support or justification of something.

Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.

Department of Defense

Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.

* Sir W. Temple

Severe defenses against wearing any linen under a certain breadth.