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Disgust vs Ire - What's the difference?

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Disgust is a related term of ire.


As nouns the difference between disgust and ire

is that disgust is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty while ire is .

As a verb disgust

is to cause an intense dislike for something.

disgust

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cause an intense dislike for something.
    • It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
    • It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust . There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.

    Noun

    (wikipedia disgust) (-)
  • An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
    • With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.

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    ire

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ire, yre, shortened form of . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Iron.
    • The cruel ire , red as any gleed. — Chaucer.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) ire, from (etyl) , (etyl) aesma'' 'anger', (etyl) ''e?ati 'it drives on').

    Noun

    (-)
  • (literary, poetic) Great anger; wrath; keen resentment.
    • Synonyms
    * fury * rage * wrath
    Related terms
    * irascibility * irascible * irate * ireful

    Verb

    (ir)
  • To anger; to fret; to irritate.

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