enrage
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Related Words
Enrage, incense, infuriate imply stirring to violent anger. To enrage or to infuriate is to provoke wrath: They enrage ( infuriate ) him by their deliberate and continual injustice. To incense is to inflame with indignation or anger: to incense a person by making insulting remarks.
Other Word Forms
- enraged adjective
- enragedly adverb
- enragement noun
Etymology
Origin of enrage
First recorded in 1490–1500; from Middle French enrager, en- 1, rage
Example Sentences
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A deal between landlocked Ethiopia and Somaliland last year to lease a stretch of coastline for a port and military base enraged Somalia.
From Barron's
That job would be short-lived after he reported Indonesia’s economy was in shambles and the country’s enraged leadership threw him out.
From Los Angeles Times
He defined the domestic cat, for instance, as “a deceitful animal, and when enraged, extremely spiteful.”
When Mr. Sveen says wolves “ruined” 40 lambs in one night, we assume he means they were left dead and uneaten and this enrages him, not unjustifiably.
Meanwhile, English soccer fans were enraged when Liverpool FC started losing.
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