What does infuriate mean?
Infuriate means To make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury..
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/ɪnˈfjʊəɹieɪt/ · verb
To make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury..
1796, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Prospect of a Regicide Peace, London: J. Owen, Letter 2, p. 105, They tore the deputation of the Clergy to pieces by their infuriated declamations and invectives, before they lacerated their bodies by their massacres.
What graceles fears, strange hates, may Nations so affright, Infuriate so; gainst God with mad attempts to fight?
He bent over Oliver, and repeated the inquiry; but finding him really incapable of understanding the question; and knowing that his not replying would only infuriate the magistrate the more, and add to the severity of his sentence; he hazarded a guess.
I had […] no notion that the working class were human beings.[…] I could agonise over their sufferings, but I still hated them and despised them when I came anywhere near them. I was still revolted by their accents and infuriated by their habitual rudeness.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has left Taiwan after a one-day visit that has infuriated China.
These [materials] in thir dark Nativitie the Deep Shall yeild us, pregnant with infernal flame, Which into hallow Engins long and round Thick-rammd, at th’ other bore with touch of fire Dilated and infuriate shall send forth From far with thundring noise among our foes Such implements of mischief as shall dash To pieces, and orewhelm whatever stands Adverse,
[…] the steady tyrant man, Who with the thoughtless insolence of power Inflam’d, beyond the most infuriate rage Of the worst monster that e'er howl'd the waste, For sport alone takes up the cruel tract,
[…] she housed and sheltered Mrs. Posky, who fled from her bungalow one night, pursued by her infuriate husband, wielding his second brandy bottle […]
Use infuriate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Infuriate means To make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury..
Common synonyms include enrage, madden, affront, aggravate.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1796, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Prospect of a Regicide Peace, London: J. Owen, Letter 2, p. 105, They tore the deputation of the Clergy to pieces by their infuriated declamations and invectives, before they lacerated their bodies by their massacres.
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