Infuriate
[ɪn'fjʊərɪeɪt] or [ɪn'fjʊrɪet]
Definition
(v. t.) Enraged; rading; furiously angry; infuriated.
(v. t.) To render furious; to enrage; to exasperate.
Editor: Stu
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Enraged, raging, mad, incensed, furious, very angry.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See INFLAME]
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Definition
v.t. to enrage: to madden.—adj. enraged: mad.
Checker: Mae
Examples
- Without more ado, therefore, I turned to meet the charge of the infuriated bull ape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Of all the terrific yells that ever fell on mortal ears, none could exceed the cry of the infuriated throng. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The infuriated beast, pulled up and backwards until he stood upon his hind legs, struggled impotently in this unnatural position. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The other males scattered in all directions, but not before the infuriated brute had felt the vertebra of one snap between his great, foaming jaws. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- This resistance only infuriated Mr. Sikes the more; who, dropping on his knees, began to assail the animal most furiously. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- And the sound of his well-known and commanding voice, seemed to have been like the taste of blood to the infuriated multitude outside. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Begone, screamed the infuriated little old woman. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- But it infuriates me that I can't get right, at the really growing part of me. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Prices rose and rose--with an infuriating effect upon the wage-earner. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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