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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To put into a rage; infuriate.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To excite rage in; exasperate; provoke to fury or madness; make furious.
  • Synonyms To irritate, incense, anger, madden, infuriate.
  • To become angry or enraged.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb put into a rage; make violently angry

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English *enragen, from Old French enrager : en-, causative pref.; see en– + rage, rage; see rage.]

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Old French enrager, enragier, corresponding to en- ("in") + rage ("rage") + -er (verbal suffix).

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