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baleful | angered |

As an adjective baleful

is portending evil; ominous.

As a verb angered is

past tense of anger.

baleful

English

Alternative forms

* balefull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Portending evil; ominous.
  • * 1674 -- John Milton: )
  • round he throws his baleful eyes, that witnessed huge affliction and dismay.
  • * 1873 ,
  • The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms,
    Amidst the soundless solitudes immense
    Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
  • Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.
  • angered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (anger)
  • Anagrams

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    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

    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

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    Anagrams

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