English Explanatory Dictionary

grame

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
  2. Sorrow; grief; misery.
verb
  1. To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
  2. To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased.

Word forms

grame gram grames graming gramed

Etymology

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.

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 aggrieve plague atray cag distress engrieve grame harass harrow harry torment trouble vex rend wring

Related words

gram
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