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anger | ragequit |

As a noun anger

is remorse, regret.

As a verb ragequit is

(intransitive|slang|video games) to quit an online video game in anger.

anger

English

(wikipedia anger)

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.

    Synonyms

    * (strong feeling of antagonism) * See also

    Derived terms

    () * angerful * angerless * angry * anger management * in anger

    Related terms

    () * anguish * anxiety * anxious

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
    • Don't anger me.
  • To become angry.
    • You anger too easily.

    Synonyms

    * (to cause anger) enrage, infuriate; annoy, vex, grill, displease; aggravate, irritate * (to become angry) get angry (see angry for more)

    References

    * * Notes:

    Anagrams

    * ----

    ragequit

    English

    Alternative forms

    * rage quit

    Verb

    (ragequitt)
  • (intransitive, slang, video games) To quit an online video game in anger.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , date = 2009-11-28 , author = rms , title = What have you been playing... IN NOVEMBER 2009? , newsgroup = comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action , id = herjp3$ucc$1@news.eternal-september.org , url = https://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action/msg/c3498805c5470e05 , passage = Having had my share of ragequitting teammates and unfinished campaigns -- I still haven't completed a L4D2 campaign on Expert -- I'll take a positive outlook and say that the complaints about difficulty amount to a longer and taller learning curve, that will give this game a longer lifespan than the first. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , date = 2010-02-08 , first = Chris , last = Whitworth , title = Pow, Wallop & Bam , newsgroup = uk.games.video.misc , id = slrnhn0725.gik.usenet.chris@parm.vs.topper.me.uk , url = https://groups.google.com/group/uk.games.video.misc/msg/6ffcbb2d13b27ec1 , passage = Cheap insta-kill attacks have made me ragequit at least twice. }}
  • * {{quote-video
    • , date = 2012-01-01 , episode = The Gold Job , title = , medium = Television , season = 4 , number = 16 , people = (Aldis Hodge) and (Timothy Hutton) , role = Alec Hardison and Nate Ford }}
    Hardison: I don't know what happened. I had 'em and then I just—
    Nate:' Didn't anticipate the ' ragequit .
    Hardison: You know gamer terminology?
    Nate:' I know the key to a good game is balancing boredom and frustration. Now the game — the puzzle's too easy, then the mark — the player — gets bored and walks away. The puzzle's too hard, then the player gets frustrated, and quits in a rage: ' ragequit .

    Derived terms

    * ragequitter

    See also

    * flounce * sore loser