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adj
Filled with, characterized by or expressing fury.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: enraged, furious, raging, ferocious, fierce, grim, incessive, infuriate, rabid, savage, volatile, wild
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: enrage, madden, affront, aggravate, anger, antagonize, awrath, burn up, cheese off, cross, embitter, envenom, gall, get, get to, honk off, incense, inflame, infuriate, make angry, nark, offend, outrage, provoke, put out, rankle, rile, piss off, roil, set off, steam, tick off, get one's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, make someone see red, make someone's blood boil, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, raise someone's shag, rattle someone's cage, rub the wrong way, ruffle some feathers, set up someone's birse
Antonyms: none provided
verb
make furious
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: exasperate, incense
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: anger
History
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.
Across languages
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