INFURIATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does infuriated mean? 

• INFURIATED (adjective)
  The adjective INFURIATED has 1 sense:

1. marked by extreme anger

  Familiarity information: INFURIATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFURIATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by extreme anger

Synonyms:

angered; enraged; furious; infuriated; maddened

Context example:

could not control the maddened crowd

Similar:

angry (feeling or showing 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)