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noun
Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Sorrow; grief; misery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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verb
To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: affront, aggravate, anger, antagonize, awrath, burn up, cheese off, cross, embitter, envenom, gall, get, get to, honk off, incense, inflame, infuriate, madden, make angry, nark, offend, outrage, provoke, put out, rankle, rile, piss off, roil, set off, steam, tick off, get one's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, make someone see red, make someone's blood boil, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, raise someone's shag, rattle someone's cage, rub the wrong way, ruffle some feathers, set up someone's birse, afflict, lacerate, aggrieve, plague, atray, cag, distress, engrieve, grame, harass, harrow, harry, torment, trouble, vex, rend, wring
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verb
To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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History
From Middle English grame, gram, grome, from Old English grama (“rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *gramô (“anger”), *gramaz (“fiend, enemy”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with Middle Dutch gram (“angry”), Dutch gram (“wrath”), Middle Low German gram (“anger”), German Gram (“grief, sorrow”), Old Danish gram (“devil”), Icelandic gramir, gröm (“fiends, demons”). Related to gram (“angry”, adjective), grim.
From Middle English gramen, gramien, from Old English gramian, gremian (“to anger, enrage”), from Proto-Germanic *gramjaną (“to grill, vex, irritate, grieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with German grämen (“to grieve”), Danish græmme (“to grieve”), Swedish gräma (“to grieve, mortify, vex”).
