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INFURIATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does infuriate mean? 

INFURIATE (verb)
  The verb INFURIATE has 1 sense:

1. make furiousplay

  Familiarity information: INFURIATE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INFURIATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they infuriate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it infuriates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: infuriated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: infuriated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: infuriating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Make furious

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

exasperate; incense; infuriate

Hypernyms (to "infuriate" is one way to...):

anger (make angry)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

The bad news will infuriate him
The performance is likely to infuriate Sue

Derivation:

fury (a feeling of intense anger)

fury (state of violent mental agitation)

infuriation (a feeling of intense anger)


 Context examples 


There was no more reason that I should stand and face these human beasts than that I should stand and face an infuriated bull.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was a pictorial sheet, and Jo examined the work of art nearest her, idly wondering what fortuitous concatenation of circumstances needed the melodramatic illustration of an Indian in full war costume, tumbling over a precipice with a wolf at his throat, while two infuriated young gentlemen, with unnaturally small feet and big eyes, were stabbing each other close by, and a disheveled female was flying away in the background with her mouth wide open.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The Cockney strove in vain to protect himself from the infuriated boy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

His body bunched together as though for a spring, and his face became as an infuriated beast’s as he snarled, “It’s a—”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I heard a great infuriated bellow go up from Wolf Larsen, and from Leach a snarling that was desperate and blood-curdling.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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