Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - anger

(angers, angering, angered) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way. He cried with anger and frustration... Ellen felt both despair and anger at her mother. = rage, fury N-UNCOUNT: oft N at n/-ing 2. If something angers you, it makes you feel angry. The decision to allow more offshore oil drilling angered some Californians. = enrage, infuriate VERB: V n