Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make furious; enrage.
- adjective Furious.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render furious or mad; enrage; make raging.
- Enraged; raging; mad: as, an infuriate lunatic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Enraged; raging; furiously angry; infuriated.
- transitive verb To render furious; to enrage; to exasperate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make
furious ormad withanger ; toenrage
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make furious
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For those who haven't read this, it's in Chapter 1, where after a paragraph introducing me to his readership he says that I 'infuriate' him, and goes on to say why.
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For those who haven't read this, it's in Chapter 1, where after a paragraph introducing me to his readership he says that I 'infuriate' him, and goes on to say why.
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That could "infuriate" the Greens, federal Labor's minority government partner.
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They will "infuriate" their voters if they don't keep their promise to pass repeal in the House.
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The new speed limit area will cover an area North to South from Bolton St.to St.St.phen's Green and West to East from Church St.to Gardiner St. But the Automobile Association has claimed the new limit will 'infuriate' motorists.
Irish Blogs 2010
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(not to specify the violation of the seventh commandment), the dancing commenced, each performer beginning with the Walk-round of the negro minstrels, rendering its grotesqueness with a wonderful frankness of movement, and then plunging into the mysteries of her dance with a kind of infuriate grace and a fierce delight very curious to look upon.
Suburban Sketches William Dean Howells 1878
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All I might add is the obvious: that what is well written about should also be well conceived; should also contain stimulating ideas; should amuse, rough up, inform, contradict, enchant, infuriate, contain kick-ass links, and change and prompt comment from those who visit.
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All I might add is the obvious: that what is well written about should also be well conceived; should also contain stimulating ideas; should amuse, rough up, inform, contradict, enchant, infuriate, contain kick-ass links, and change and prompt comment from those who visit.
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Any interference will simply serve to infuriate Iranian officials.
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The Tea Partiers, with Professor Reynolds in the lead, are New South, and there is nothing you can do to more infuriate them than the conflate them with the Old. Hence my passion.
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