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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
enrage .
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Examples
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The Clinton name enrages and energizes the Republicans, and she does not help in attracting independent voters.
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Attempts to reform the university in 1967 further frustrated students, leading a few with political activist backgrounds to form a group called the enrages — a name that originated in the French Revolution and literally means "angry people."
1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004
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Conservatives (And their mainstream enablers) have long suffered under the misapprehension that Ann Coulter "enrages" liberals or some such nonsense.
Eschaton 2009
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She added under her breath: "I wish he'd see a doctor, but the idea enrages him.
The Common Law 1899
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"This nick name enrages this species of militia, who then deal heavier blows around them, wounding indiscriminately all they encounter.
The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860
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There are just so many things wrong with this, that it enrages me every single time.
weekly nathreee 2010
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There are just so many things wrong with this, that it enrages me every single time.
It gets to me every time nathreee 2010
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This absolutely enrages Balotelli, for some reason.
Manchester City 0 - 1 Liverpool – as it happened | Simon Burnton 2012
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But what reportedly enrages him is the audience ratings Santoro wins – numbers that grow every time the prime minister allegedly urges RAI functionaries to sabotage the show.
Berlusconi 'vendetta' takes Italy's Paxman off air again Tom Kington in Rome 2010
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The point you make about using literary texts as a way of introducing more challenging and engaging content into coursebooks is an interesting one – it is exactly the timidity of publishers to exploit the literary canon in American textbooks that so enrages Diane Ravitch.
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