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angry | aggravate |

As an adjective angry

is displaying or feeling anger.

As a verb aggravate is

to make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.

angry

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Displaying or feeling anger.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
  • (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
    • The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
  • Dark and stormy, menacing.
    • Angry clouds raced across the sky.
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    Synonyms

    * (displaying anger) mad, enraged, wrathful, furious, apoplectic; irritated, annoyed, vexed, pissed off, cheesed off, worked up, psyched up * See also

    Derived terms

    * angrily * angriness * Angry Young Man

    See also

    * (Anger)

    Anagrams

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    aggravate

    English

    Verb

    (aggravat)
  • To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
    • To aggravate my woes. —
    To aggravate the horrors of the scene. —.
    The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. —Addison.
  • To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. — .
  • To exasperate; to provoke, to irritate.
  • * 1748 , (Samuel Richardson), Clarissa :
    • If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“It is a pity,” he retorted with aggravating meekness, “that they do not use a little common sense. The case resembles that of Columbus' egg, and is every bit as simple. […]”}}
  • * 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 85:
    • Ben Bella was aggravated by having to express himself in French because the Egyptians were unable to understand his Arabic.

    Usage notes

    * Although the meaning "to exasperate, to annoy" has been in continuous usage since the 16th century, a large number of usage mavens have contested it since the 1870s. Opinions have swayed from this proscription since 1965, but it still garners disapproval in Garner's Modern American Usage (2009), at least for formal writing.

    Synonyms

    * heighten, intensify, increase, magnify, exaggerate, provoke, irritate, exasperate * See also

    Related terms

    * aggravation

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