infuriate
verb (used with object)
to make furious; enrage.
were infuriating
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past progressiveof infuriate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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These choices were infuriating because employers could have invested in making them unnecessary.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2022
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the crowds were "infuriating and disgraceful" and could delay the end of the Covid lockdown.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2021
The horrors that repeatedly befell the hapless crews of Sajo Oyang ships were infuriating and tragic.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2019
Shultz was convinced that the sanctions were infuriating European allies and would not stop the pipeline, but that is not what he emphasized to Reagan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whether they were derived of societal suggestions or secret aspirations of my own concoction, I could not tell, yet they were infuriating, whatever their origin might have been, because of their unattainable quality.
From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Lauren Ann Isaacson
