enrage
verb (used with object)
to make extremely angry; put into a rage; infuriate.
had enraged
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past perfectof enrage.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The decision was written by Judge Irving Kaufman, who decades earlier had enraged Navasky and others on the left by imposing the death penalty on convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
That plan had enraged the banks, partly because of provisions for a shareholder bail-in that would wipe out their capital.
From Reuters ● Sep. 23, 2021
In defending the agreement that had enraged the French president, Mr. Johnson said, “donnez-moi un break” — “give me a break.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2021
He was ready to talk more deeply about what had enraged him in the spring: the underappreciated burden of the conventional big man in today’s game.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2017
But in the jungle he had not been able to endure the flies that had crawled over Rocky; they had enraged him.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
