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
Then Christopher Go — the presidential aide turned Senate candidate whom Ranada had enraged with her article — addressed the throng.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2019
It wasn’t entirely clear, however, what had enraged the president; Brown and Whaley had actually praised his meetings with hospital staff.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2019
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
