indignation; exasperation, bitter resentment, wrathful indignation.
pique, umbrage, huff, miff, soreness, dudgeon, acerbity,
virulence, bitterness, acrimony, asperity, spleen, gall; heart-burning,
heart-swelling; rankling.
ill humor, bad humor, ill temper, bad temper; irascibility &c 901;
ill blood &c (hate) 898; revenge &c 919.
excitement, irritation; warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker,
dander, ferment, ebullition; towering passion, acharnement [Fr.], angry
mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums.
burst, explosion, paroxysm, storm, rage, fury, desperation;
violence &c 173; fire and fury; vials of wrath; gnashing of teeth, hot
blood, high words.
scowl &c 895; sulks &c 901.1.
[Cause of umbrage] affront, provocation, offense; indignity &c
(insult) 929; grudge, crow to pluck, bone to pick, sore subject, casus
belli [Lat.]; ill turn, outrage.
Furies, Eumenides.
buffet, slap in the face, box on the ear, rap on the knuckles.
V. resent, take amiss, take ill, take to heart, take offense, take
umbrage, take huff, take exception; take in ill part, take in bad part,
take in dudgeon; ne pas entendre raillerie [Fr.]; breathe revenge, cut
up rough.
fly into a rage, fall into a rage, get into a rage, fly into a
passion; bridle up, bristle up, froth up, fire up, flare up; open the
vials of one's wrath, pour out the vials of one's wrath.
pout, knit the brow, frown, scowl, lower, snarl, growl, gnarl,
gnash, snap; redden, color; look black, look black as thunder, look
daggers; bite one's thumb; show one's teeth, grind one's teeth; champ
the bit, champ at the bit.
chafe, mantle, fume, kindle, fly out, take fire; boil, boil over;
boil with indignation, boil with rage; rage, storm, foam, vent one's
rage, vent one's spleen; lose one's temper, stand on one's hind legs,
stamp the foot, stamp with rage, quiver with rage, swell with rage,
foam with rage; burst with anger; raise Cain.
have a fling at; bear malice &c (revenge) 919.
cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give
umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle,
nettle, huff, pique; excite &c 824; irritate, stir the blood, stir up
bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense,
inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame,
widen the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle
wrath; stick in one's gizzard; rankle &c 919; hit on the raw, rub on
the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw.
put out of countenance, put out of humor; put one's monkey up, put
one's back up; raise one's gorge, raise one's dander, raise one's
choler; work up into a passion; make one's blood boil, make the ears
tingle; throw, into a ferment, madden, drive one mad; lash into fury,
lash into madness; fool to the top of one's bent; set by the ears.
bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.
Adj. angry, wrath, irate; ireful, wrathful; cross &c (irascible) 901;
Achillean†; sulky, &c 901.1; bitter, virulent; acrimonious &c
(discourteous) &c 895; violent &c 173.
warm, burning; boiling, boiling over; fuming, raging; foaming,
foaming at the mouth; convulsed with rage.
offended &c v.; waxy, acharne; wrought, worked up; indignant,
hurt, sore; set against.
fierce, wild, rageful†, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate,
rabid, savage; relentless &c 919.
flushed with anger, flushed with rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a
fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in
a way; on one's high ropes, up in arms; in high dudgeon.
Adv. angrily &c adj.; in the height of passion; in the heat of passion,
in the heat of the moment.
Int. tantaene animis coelestibus irae! [Lat.], [Vergil], marry come
up!, zounds!, 'sdeath! [Contr.].
Phr. one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up;
fervens difficili bile jecur [Lat.]; the gorge rising, eyes flashing
fire; the blood rising, the blood boiling; haeret lateri lethalis
arundo [Lat.] [Vergil]; beware the fury of a patient man [Dryden];
furor arma ministrat [Lat.] [Vergil]; ira furor brevis est [Lat.]
[Horace]; quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius [Lat.]; What, drunk
with choler? [Henry IV].