INFURIATE

infuriate, exasperate, incense

(verb) make furious

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

infuriate (third-person singular simple present infuriates, present participle infuriating, simple past and past participle infuriated)

To make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.

Synonyms: enrage, madden

Synonyms

• See also enrage

Adjective

infuriate (comparative more infuriate, superlative most infuriate)

(now rare) Filled with, characterized by or expressing fury.

Synonyms: enraged, furious, raging

Source: Wiktionary


In*fu"ri*ate, a. Etym: [It. infuriato, p. p. of infuriare. See Infuriate, v. t.]

Definition: Enraged; rading; furiously angry; infuriated. Milton. Inflamed beyond the most infuriate wrath. Thomson.

In*fu"ri*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Infuriated (; p. pr. & vb. n. Infuriating] Etym: [It. infuriato, p. p. of infuriare; pref. in- (L. in) + furia fury, L. furia. See Fury.]

Definition: To render furious; to enrage; to exasperate. Those curls of entangled snakes with which Erinys is said to have infuriated Athemas and Ino. Dr. H. More.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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