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Definition of Infuriate
1. Verb. Make furious. "The performance is likely to infuriate Sue"
Generic synonyms: Anger
Derivative terms: Exasperation, Exasperation, Fury, Fury, Infuriation
Definition of Infuriate
1. a. Enraged; raging; furiously angry; infuriated.
2. v. t. To render furious; to enrage; to exasperate.
Definition of Infuriate
1. Verb. To make furious or mad with anger; to enrage ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Infuriate
1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infuriate
Literary usage of Infuriate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... And lashes either side his flanks and loins, Spurring himself to battle,
fiery-eyed, Then onward springs infuriate, till he slays His hunters, ..."
2. The Seasons by James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch, John Aikin (1811)
"... Where drought and famine starve the blasted year: Fired by the torch of noon
to tenfold rage, The infuriate hill that shoots the pillared flame; ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1847)
"I saw the in hand ; and even yet all matters fence on the left. I fancy I heard
a worth, however, had the horses well infuriate beast make a ..."
4. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by New York (State). Constitutional Convention (1916)
"... this into the Constitution you will auger these jK-ople and infuriate them
and stir up a great bulk of opposition in that section to the Constitution. ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1802)
"... horrid shock the infuriate hosts engage, \Vhen wintry Eurus shoots his arrows
chill, ' He ceased, and as along the 'lucid rill, The icy rigour spreads ..."
6. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"infuriate; see Fury. Ingenious, Ingenuous: see Genus. Infuse ; see Fuse (i).
Ingle, fire. (C.) Gael, and Irish aingeal, fire; allied to L. ignis, Skt. agni, ..."
7. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"... race forsake their king, Where spears infuriate ou the bucklers ring! He spoke;
then four times round his head he whirl'd His ponderous spear, ..."
8. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"S. Sensibility^ The friend whom wild from wisdom's ways, The fumes of wine
infuriate send ; Sent to a Gent, offended. Who but deplores that hapless friend? ..."
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