Word Meanings - EXASPERATER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence.

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• VIOLENCE
  1. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force. That seal You ask with such a violence, the king, Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me. Shak. All the elements
• ENMITY
  1. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition. No ground of enmity between us known. Milton. 2. A state of opposition; hostility. The friendship of the world is enmity with God. James iv. 4. Syn. -- Rancor; hostility; hatred;
• ANGER
  1. To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame. He . . . angereth malign ulcers. Bacon. 2. To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke. Taxes and impositions . . . which rather angered than grieved the people. Clarendon.
• ANGERLY
  Angrily. Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly. Shak.
• ON-HANGER
  A hanger-on.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• WANGER
  A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• GRANGER
  1. A farm steward. 2. A member of a grange.
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• TANGERINE
  A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in America from the mandarin.
• BOULANGERITE
  A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is sulphide of antimony and lead.
• GANGER
  One who oversees a gang of workmen. Mayhew.
• HANGER
  1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman. 2. That by which a thing is suspended. Especially: A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended. A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust.
• BUSHRANGER
  One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush.
• DANGERLESS
  Free from danger.
• DOPPELGANGER
  A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker.
• ENDANGERMENT
  Hazard; peril. Milton.
• HANGER-ON
  One who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service; a dependent; one who adheres to others' society longer than he is wanted. Goldsmith.
• FOREGANGER
  A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin Totten.
• ORANGERY
  A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees.