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enraging

enraging adjective: causing one to become enraged; infuriating. Also the present participle and gerund of enrage.

Adjective

enraging (comparative more enraging, superlative most enraging)

  1. Causing one to become enraged; infuriating.
    • I know nothing more enraging than to be shown into a charming-looking room, with a beautiful great cupboard, and a gallant chest of drawers, that seem to promise us ample breathing-room for one's things , and to discover half the space we were so very gleefully looking forward to appropriating is...1888, Jane Ellen Panton, From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for Young Householders, page 146
    • Most enraging to the peasants was the tax he forcibly levied on irrigation water from the Mansŏk-po reservoir .2012, Jinwung Kim, A History of Korea, page 301

Also used as

enraging is also the present participle and gerund of enrage.

Forms of enraging

comparativemore enraging
superlativemost enraging

Words formed from enraging

Questions about enraging

What does enraging mean?
Enraging means causing one to become enraged; infuriating.
What part of speech is enraging?
Enraging is an adjective.

Words near enraging in the dictionary

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

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