wrath, anger, ire, ira
(noun) belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)
wrath
(noun) intense anger (usually on an epic scale)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
wrath (usually uncountable, plural wraths)
(formal or old-fashioned) Great anger.
Synonyms: fury, ire
(rare) Punishment.
• The pronunciation with the vowel /æ/ is regarded as incorrect by many British English speakers.
wrath (comparative more wrath, superlative most wrath)
(rare) Wrathful; very angry.
wrath (third-person singular simple present wraths, present participle wrathing, simple past and past participle wrathed)
(obsolete) To anger; to enrage.
• Warth, warth
Source: Wiktionary
Wrath, n. Etym: [OE. wrathe, wraÞ\'ede, wrethe, wræ\'ebthe, AS. wræ\'ebtho, fr. wra\'eb wroth; akin to Icel. reithi wrath. See Wroth, a.]
1. Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire. Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed. Spenser. When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased. Esther ii. 1. Now smoking and frothing Its tumult and wrath in. Southey.
2. The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime. "A revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil." Rom. xiii. 4.
Syn.
– Anger; fury; rage; ire; vengeance; indignation; resentment; passion. See Anger.
Wrath, a.
Definition: See Wroth. [Obs.]
Wrath, v. t.
Definition: To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally. [Obs.] "I will not wrathen him." Chaucer. If him wratheth, be ywar and his way shun. Piers Plowman.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
