noun
Meaning 1
Extreme anger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rage, fury
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
infuriation
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rhymes with -eɪʃən
noun
Meaning 2
Something that causes extreme anger; an expression or instance of extreme anger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Examples
- 1923, T. E. Lawrence, letter to Edward Garnett dated 16 December, 1923, in David Garnett (ed.), Letters of T. E. Lawrence, London: Jonathan Cape, 1938, p. 444, He likes the chapters in which I ramble round among the cobwebs of my own mind—those you wanted cut! Quaint, isn’t it? He also likes others, which you praised. That’s one infuriation of letters, of all artistic effort... their lack of an absolute.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a feeling of intense anger
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: enragement
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: anger, choler, ire
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English infuriate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English infuriation From infuriate + -ion.