Associations to the word «Ire»

Wiktionary

IRE, noun. (Now chiefly dialectal) Iron.
IRE, noun. (literary) (poetic) Great anger; wrath; keen resentment.
IRE, verb. (transitive) To anger; to fret; to irritate.

Dictionary definition

IRE, noun. A strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance.
IRE, noun. Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats