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Anger vs Wraith - What's the difference?

anger | wraith |

As nouns the difference between anger and wraith

is that anger is a strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm while wraith is a ghost or specter, especially seen just after a person's death.

As a verb anger

is to cause such a feeling of antagonism.

anger

English

(wikipedia anger)

Noun

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

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    wraith

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A ghost or specter, especially seen just after a person's death.
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    • , year=1917 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=A Princess of Mars , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=We might indeed have been the wraiths of the departed dead upon the dead sea of that dying planet for all the sound or sign we made in passing. }}
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    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * wraithish * wraithful * wraithlike

    See also

    * (wikipedia "wraith")