ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

fly into a rage, fall into a rage, get into a rage, fly into a passion; bridle up, bristle up,
froth up, fire up, flare up; open the vials of one's wrath, pour out the vials of one's wrath.
pout, knit the brow, frown, scowl, lower, snarl, growl, gnarl, gnash, snap; redden,
color; look black, look black as thunder, look daggers; bite one's thumb; show one's teeth,
grind one's teeth; champ the bit, champ at the bit.
chafe, mantle, fume, kindle, fly out, take fire; boil, boil over; boil with indignation,
boil with rage; rage, storm, foam, vent one's rage, vent one's spleen; lose one's temper,
stand on one's hind legs, stamp the foot, stamp with rage, quiver with rage, swell with
rage, foam with rage; burst with anger; raise Cain.
have a fling at; bear malice &c (revenge) 919.
cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the
feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite &c 824; irritate, stir the
blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame,
enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom,
embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard; rankle &c 919; hit on
the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw.
put out of countenance, put out of humor; put one's monkey up, put one's back up;
raise one's gorge, raise one's dander, raise one's choler; work up into a passion; make
one's blood boil, make the ears tingle; throw, into a ferment, madden, drive one mad; lash
into fury, lash into madness; fool to the top of one's bent; set by the ears.
bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.
Adj. angry, wrath, irate; ireful, wrathful; cross &c (irascible) 901; Achillean † ; sulky, &c
901.1; bitter, virulent; acrimonious &c (discourteous) &c 895; violent &c 173.
warm, burning; boiling, boiling over; fuming, raging; foaming, foaming at the mouth;
convulsed with rage.
offended &c v.; waxy, acharne; wrought, worked up; indignant, hurt, sore; set against.
fierce, wild, rageful † , furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage; relentless
&c 919.
flushed with anger, flushed with rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a
passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way; on one's high ropes, up in arms; in high
dudgeon.
Adv. angrily &c adj.; in the height of passion; in the heat of passion, in the heat of the
moment.
Int. tantaene animis coelestibus irae! [Lat.], [Vergil], marry come up!, zounds!, 'sdeath!
[Contr.].
Phr. one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up; fervens difficili
bile jecur [Lat.]; the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire; the blood rising, the blood boiling;
haeret lateri lethalis arundo [Lat.] [Vergil]; beware the fury of a patient man [Dryden];
furor arma ministrat [Lat.] [Vergil]; ira furor brevis est [Lat.] [Horace]; quem Jupiter vult
perdere dementat prius [Lat.]; What, drunk with choler? [Henry IV].
901. Irascibility -- N. irascibility, irascibleness, temper; crossness &c adj.; susceptibility,
procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity; pugnacity &c
(contentiousness) 720.
excitability &c 825; bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable &c adj..
temper; genus irritabile [Lat.], hot blood.