grame
Noun
- Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
- Sorrow; grief; misery.
Verb
- To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
- To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased.
Origin / 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
afflict, affront, aggravate, aggrieve, anger, antagonize, atray, awrath, burn up, cag, cheese off, cross, distress, embitter, engrieve, envenom, gall, get, get one's back up, get someone's Irish up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get to, grame, harass, harrow, harry, honk off, incense, inflame, infuriate, madden, make angry, make someone see red, make someone's blood boil, nark, offend, outrage, piss off, plague, provoke, put out, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, raise someone's shag, rankle, rattle someone's cage, rend, rile, roil, rub the wrong way, ruffle some feathers, set off, set up someone's birse, steam, tick off, torment, trouble, vex, wring
Scrabble Score: 8
grame: not valid in Scrabble (US) TWL Dictionarygrame: not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
grame: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary