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Wroth
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective Wroth has 1 sense
- wroth(s = adj.all) wrathful, wrothful - vehemently incensed and condemnatory; "they trembled before the wrathful queen"; "but wroth as he was, a short struggle ended in reconciliation"
CIDE DICTIONARY
Wroth, a. [OE. wroth, wrap, AS. wrā wroth, crooked, bad; akin to wrī to writhe, and to OS. wrangry, D. wreed cruel, OHG. reid twisted, Icel. rei angry, Dan. & Sw. vred. See Writhe, and cf. Wrath.].
Full of wrath; angry; incensed; much exasperated; wrathful. Milton. [1913 Webster]
"Revel and truth as in a low degree,
They be full wroth [i. e. , at enmity] all day."
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They be full wroth [
"Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell."
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THESAURUS
Wroth
angered, angry, browned-off, cross, heated, incensed, indignant, irate, ireful, livid, mad, pissed, pissed-off, riled up, sore, ticked off, waxy, worked up, wrathful, wrathy, wrought-up
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