"ire" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /aɪɹ/ [US], /aɪ.ə(ɹ)/ [UK] Audio: en-us-ire.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English ire, yre, from Old English īre, ȳre, īr, ȳr, shortened form of īren (“iron”). More at iron. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|ire}} Middle English ire, {{m|enm|yre}} yre, {{inh|en|ang|īre}} Old English īre, {{m|ang|ȳre}} ȳre, {{m|ang|īr}} īr, {{m|ang|ȳr}} ȳr, {{m|ang|īren|t=iron}} īren (“iron”), {{m|en|iron}} iron Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} ire
  1. (obsolete) Iron. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-ire-en-noun-zo6jXGc0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 50 32 18 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 43 39 19
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /aɪɹ/ [US], /aɪ.ə(ɹ)/ [UK] Audio: en-us-ire.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English ire, from Old French ire (“ire”), from Latin īra (“wrath, rage”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂- (“to fall upon, act sharply”) (compare Old English ofost (“haste, zeal”), Old Norse eisa (“to race forward”), Ancient Greek ἱερός (hierós, “supernatural, holy”), οἶστρος (oîstros, “frenzy; gadfly”), Avestan 𐬀𐬈𐬯𐬨𐬀 (aesma, “anger”), Sanskrit एषति (eṣati, “to drive on”)). Compare also Middle English irre, erre (“anger, wrath”), from Old English yrre, ierre, eorre (“anger, wrath”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|ire}} Middle English ire, {{der|en|fro|ire||ire}} Old French ire (“ire”), {{der|en|la|īra||wrath, rage}} Latin īra (“wrath, rage”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*h₁eysh₂-||to fall upon, act sharply}} Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂- (“to fall upon, act sharply”), {{cog|ang|ofost||haste, zeal}} Old English ofost (“haste, zeal”), {{cog|non|eisa||to race forward}} Old Norse eisa (“to race forward”), {{cog|grc|ἱερός||supernatural, holy}} Ancient Greek ἱερός (hierós, “supernatural, holy”), {{m|grc|οἶστρος||frenzy; gadfly}} οἶστρος (oîstros, “frenzy; gadfly”), {{cog|ae|𐬀𐬈𐬯𐬨𐬀|t=anger}} Avestan 𐬀𐬈𐬯𐬨𐬀 (aesma, “anger”), {{cog|sa|एषति|t=to drive on}} Sanskrit एषति (eṣati, “to drive on”), {{noncog|enm|irre}} Middle English irre, {{m|enm|erre|t=anger, wrath}} erre (“anger, wrath”), {{noncog|ang|yrre}} Old English yrre, {{m|ang|ierre}} ierre, {{m|ang|eorre|t=anger, wrath}} eorre (“anger, wrath”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} ire (uncountable)
  1. Great anger; wrath; keen resentment. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Anger Synonyms: fury, rage, wrath Related terms: irascibility, irascible, irate, ireful Translations (great anger): гняв (gnjav) [masculine] (Bulgarian), ярост (jarost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), ira [feminine] (Catalan), 憤怒 (Chinese Mandarin), 愤怒 (fènnù) (Chinese Mandarin), hněv [masculine] (Czech), zloba [feminine] (Czech), toorn [masculine] (Dutch), woede [feminine] (Dutch), kolero (Esperanto), viha (Finnish), ire [feminine] (French), colère [feminine] (French), courroux [feminine] (French), Ärger [masculine] (German), Wut [feminine] (German), Zorn [masculine] (German), harag (Hungarian), ira [feminine] (Italian), 怒り (ikari) (alt: いかり) (Japanese), 분노 (bunno) (alt: 憤怒) (Korean), īra [feminine] (Latin), гнев (gnev) [masculine] (Macedonian), бес (bes) [masculine] (Macedonian), hīnawanawa (Maori), hīkaka (Maori), nguha (Maori), غضب (ğazab) (Persian), wściekłość [feminine] (Polish), furia [feminine] (Polish), ira [feminine] (Portuguese), mânie [feminine] (Romanian), furie [feminine] (Romanian), гнев (gnev) [masculine] (Russian), я́рость (járostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), злость (zlostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), зло́ба (zlóba) [feminine] (Russian), ira [feminine] (Spanish), ความโกรธ (kwaam gròht) (Thai), ความโมโห (kwaam mohŏh) (Thai), โทสะ (too-sà) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-ire-en-noun-en:anger Disambiguation of Anger: 8 48 45 Categories (other): English terms with collocations, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 43 39 19
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /aɪɹ/ [US], /aɪ.ə(ɹ)/ [UK] Audio: en-us-ire.ogg [US] Forms: ires [present, singular, third-person], iring [participle, present], ired [participle, past], ired [past]
Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English ire, from Old French ire (“ire”), from Latin īra (“wrath, rage”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂- (“to fall upon, act sharply”) (compare Old English ofost (“haste, zeal”), Old Norse eisa (“to race forward”), Ancient Greek ἱερός (hierós, “supernatural, holy”), οἶστρος (oîstros, “frenzy; gadfly”), Avestan 𐬀𐬈𐬯𐬨𐬀 (aesma, “anger”), Sanskrit एषति (eṣati, “to drive on”)). Compare also Middle English irre, erre (“anger, wrath”), from Old English yrre, ierre, eorre (“anger, wrath”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|ire}} Middle English ire, {{der|en|fro|ire||ire}} Old French ire (“ire”), {{der|en|la|īra||wrath, rage}} Latin īra (“wrath, rage”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*h₁eysh₂-||to fall upon, act sharply}} Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂- (“to fall upon, act sharply”), {{cog|ang|ofost||haste, zeal}} Old English ofost (“haste, zeal”), {{cog|non|eisa||to race forward}} Old Norse eisa (“to race forward”), {{cog|grc|ἱερός||supernatural, holy}} Ancient Greek ἱερός (hierós, “supernatural, holy”), {{m|grc|οἶστρος||frenzy; gadfly}} οἶστρος (oîstros, “frenzy; gadfly”), {{cog|ae|𐬀𐬈𐬯𐬨𐬀|t=anger}} Avestan 𐬀𐬈𐬯𐬨𐬀 (aesma, “anger”), {{cog|sa|एषति|t=to drive on}} Sanskrit एषति (eṣati, “to drive on”), {{noncog|enm|irre}} Middle English irre, {{m|enm|erre|t=anger, wrath}} erre (“anger, wrath”), {{noncog|ang|yrre}} Old English yrre, {{m|ang|ierre}} ierre, {{m|ang|eorre|t=anger, wrath}} eorre (“anger, wrath”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} ire (third-person singular simple present ires, present participle iring, simple past and past participle ired)
  1. (transitive, rare) To anger, to irritate. Tags: rare, transitive Categories (topical): Anger Translations (to anger, fret): woeden (Dutch), laaien (Dutch), øsa (Faroese), беснее (besnee) (Macedonian), înfuria (Romanian), mânia (Romanian), ira [feminine] (Spanish), ทำให้โกรธ (tam hâi gròht) (Thai), ทำให้โกรธเคือง (tam hâi gròht keuang) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-ire-en-verb-rtz1-pE5 Disambiguation of Anger: 8 48 45 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 43 39 19
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "great anger",
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          "sense": "great anger",
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          "ref": "1915, Dr. Duncan Eve of Nashville, Tennessee, USA, in the Southern Medical Journal, volume 4, page 279",
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          "text": "[…]to give up anorexia. Everyone else deserves their food; it ires me to no end—couldn't write “pissed off,” too juvenile—to hear other girls say, “I shouldn't be eating this.” Shut up, I want to say, you're fucking gorgeous.",
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          "ref": "2012 September 14, Jim McGahern, A Leg up on the Canon Book 3: Adaptations of Shakespeare's Tragedies and Kyd's the Spanish Tragedy, iUniverse, page 264",
          "text": "Instinctively Lear knows she is making some sense, but he has never been treated in this way before and it ires him into calling Goneril a “degenerate bastard” The decrepit old[…]",
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          "ref": "2014 March, John A. Tirpak, “Gates versus the Air Force”, in Air Force Magazine, page 56",
          "text": "The origin of Gates’ decapitation of the Air Force’s top leadership clearly lie with the F-22. Gates was ired that “every time Moseley and Air Force secretary Mike Wynne came to see me, it was about a new bomber or more F-22s.”",
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          "ref": "2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 3",
          "text": "News of this notice from the university was picked up by local media and had the effect of raising the ire of some citizens who saw this as an attack on ‘Chinese heritage’, which in turn resulted in a rapid apology from the university[.]",
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        "Great anger; wrath; keen resentment."
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          "word": "fury"
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        }
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      "ipa": "/aɪ.ə(ɹ)/",
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "gnjav",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гняв"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "jarost",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ярост"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ira"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "word": "憤怒"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fènnù",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "word": "愤怒"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hněv"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "zloba"
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "toorn"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "woede"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "word": "kolero"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "word": "viha"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ire"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "colère"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "courroux"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ärger"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Wut"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Zorn"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "word": "harag"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ira"
    },
    {
      "alt": "いかり",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ikari",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "word": "怒り"
    },
    {
      "alt": "憤怒",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "bunno",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "word": "분노"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "īra"
    },
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      "code": "mk",
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      "roman": "gnev",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гнев"
    },
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "bes",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "бес"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "word": "hīnawanawa"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "word": "hīkaka"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "word": "nguha"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "word": "nguha"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "ğazab",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "word": "غضب"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "wściekłość"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "furia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ira"
    },
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mânie"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "furie"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гнев"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "я́рость"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "злость"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "зло́ба"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ira"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "kwaam gròht",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "word": "ความโกรธ"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "kwaam mohŏh",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "word": "ความโมโห"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "too-sà",
      "sense": "great anger",
      "word": "โทสะ"
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          "ref": "1880, Gleason's Monthly Companion, page 287",
          "text": "It doesn't tire a man to put down a carpet so much as it ires him.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1915, Dr. Duncan Eve of Nashville, Tennessee, USA, in the Southern Medical Journal, volume 4, page 279",
          "text": "I heard enough from the gentleman who has just taken his seat, and from my friend, Dr. Caldwell, to ire me just a little bit."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Louis L'Amour, Lando, page 3",
          "text": "“You have enemies. Is that why you have chosen to leave at this time?”\nIt ired me that he should think so, but I held my peace, and when I spoke at last, my voice was mild.",
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        {
          "ref": "1968, “H. P. Wasson and Company”, in Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, volume 170, page 298",
          "text": "Only one employee testified as to the interrogation. This was Mary Farley who testified that at the time the research interviewer reached her home she was entertaining company and that she was “ired” by the interruption.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "1992 03, Canadian House of Commons, House of Commons Debates, volume 7, page 8115",
          "text": "Mr. Gray (Bonaventure–Îles-de-la-Madeleine): Mr. Speaker, [...] Having been in the House of Commons for seven and one-half years and regardless of political stripe, the thing that angers and ires me the most is to hear downtown metro people talking […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 August 1, Xan Nowakowski, Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, iUniverse, page 104",
          "text": "[…]to give up anorexia. Everyone else deserves their food; it ires me to no end—couldn't write “pissed off,” too juvenile—to hear other girls say, “I shouldn't be eating this.” Shut up, I want to say, you're fucking gorgeous.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 September 14, Jim McGahern, A Leg up on the Canon Book 3: Adaptations of Shakespeare's Tragedies and Kyd's the Spanish Tragedy, iUniverse, page 264",
          "text": "Instinctively Lear knows she is making some sense, but he has never been treated in this way before and it ires him into calling Goneril a “degenerate bastard” The decrepit old[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 March, John A. Tirpak, “Gates versus the Air Force”, in Air Force Magazine, page 56",
          "text": "The origin of Gates’ decapitation of the Air Force’s top leadership clearly lie with the F-22. Gates was ired that “every time Moseley and Air Force secretary Mike Wynne came to see me, it was about a new bomber or more F-22s.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Sarah Hawkswood, River of Sins, Allison and Busby",
          "text": "‘And do not leave Furnaux in a pool of blood, however much he ires you. He has his uses.’",
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "to anger, fret",
      "word": "woeden"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "to anger, fret",
      "word": "øsa"
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      "code": "mk",
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      "roman": "besnee",
      "sense": "to anger, fret",
      "word": "беснее"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to anger, fret",
      "word": "înfuria"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to anger, fret",
      "word": "mânia"
    },
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "to anger, fret",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ira"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "tam hâi gròht",
      "sense": "to anger, fret",
      "word": "ทำให้โกรธ"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "tam hâi gròht keuang",
      "sense": "to anger, fret",
      "word": "ทำให้โกรธเคือง"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ire"
}

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