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Webster 1913 Edition


Irate

I-rate′

,
Adj.
[L.
iratus
, fr.
irasci
to be angry. See
Ire
.]
Angry; incensed; enraged.
[Recent]
The
irate
colonel . . . stood speechless.
Thackeray.
Mr. Jaggers suddenly became most
irate
.
Dickens.
Syn. – Anger; passion; rage; fury. See
Anger
.