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enrages

enrages is the third-person singular simple present indicative of enrage.

Meaning of enrage

Verb

enrage (third-person singular simple present enrages, present participle enraging, simple past and past participle enraged)

  1. (intransitive) To become angry or wild.
  2. (transitive) To fill with rage; to outrage; to provoke to frenzy; to make furious.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To provoke to madness, to make insane.
    • La[dy Macbeth]. I pray you ſpeake not: he growes worſe & worſe
      Queſtion enrages him: at once, goodnight. […]
      Len[nox]. Good night, and better health
      Attend his Maieſty.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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Enrages is the third-person singular simple present indicative of enrage.

Words near enrages in the dictionary

  1. enragedly
  2. enragement
  3. enragements
  4. enrager
  5. enragers
  6. enrages
  7. enragest
  8. enraging
  9. enragingly
  10. enrail
  11. enrailed

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