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infuriate

verb
/ɪnˈfjʊəɹieɪt/UK/ɪnˈfjʊəɹɪət/

Etymology

First attested in 1667; borrowed from Medieval Latin infuriātus (“enraged”), perfect passive participle of infuriō (“to enrage”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin furia (“rage, fury, frenzy”); perhaps via Italian infuriato.

  1. borrowed from infuriato
  2. derived from furia
  3. borrowed from infuriātus

Definitions

  1. To make furious or mad with anger

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

    • What graceles fears, strange hates, may Nations so affright, Infuriate so; gainst God with mad attempts to fight?

  2. Filled with, characterized by or expressing fury.

    • […] the steady tyrant man, Who with the thoughtless insolence of power Inflam’d, beyond the most infuriate rage Of the worst monster that e'er howl'd the waste, For sport alone takes up the cruel tract,
    • […] she housed and sheltered Mrs. Posky, who fled from her bungalow one night, pursued by her infuriate husband, wielding his second brandy bottle […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA