infuriate
/ɪnˈfjʊəɹɪət/UK/ɪnˈfjʊəɹieɪt/
infuriate verb: to make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.
Verb
infuriate (third-person singular simple present infuriates, present participle infuriating, simple past and past participle infuriated)
- To make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.
- What graceles fears, strange hates, may Nations so affright,
Infuriate so; gainst God with mad attempts to fight?1615, Edwin Sandys, “Psalm 2”, in Sacred Hymns, Consisting of fifti select psalms of David and others, paraphrastically turned into English verse, London, page 2 - They tore the deputation of the Clergy to pieces by their infuriated declamations and invectives, before they lacerated their bodies by their massacres.1796, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Prospect of a Regicide Peace, London: J. Owen, Letter 2, p. 105
- Synonyms:
- enrage, madden, affront, aggravate, anger, antagonize, awrath, burn up, cheese off, cross
- What graceles fears, strange hates, may Nations so affright,
Adjective
infuriate (comparative more infuriate, superlative most infuriate)
- Filled with, characterized by or expressing fury.
- These [materials] in thir dark Nativitie the Deep
Shall yeild us, pregnant with infernal flame,
Which into hallow Engins long and round
Thick-rammd, at th’ other bore with touch of fire
Dilated and infuriate shall send forth
From far with thundring noise among our foes
Such implements of mischief...1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished... - […] the steady tyrant man,
Who with the thoughtless insolence of power
Inflam’d, beyond the most infuriate rage
Of the worst monster that e'er howl'd the waste,
For sport alone takes up the cruel tract,a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 26, lines 392-396
- These [materials] in thir dark Nativitie the Deep
infuriate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
infuriate in Tamil
- சினமூட்டிடு, சினமூட்டு, வெறியூட்டு
infuriate in Urdu
- to infuriate
- اشتعال دینا iśte'āl denā
infuriate in Bengali
- অত্যন্ত রাগান্বিত করা, ক্ষিপ্ত করা
infuriate in Malayalam
- രോഷാകുലനാക്കുക, കോപം ജ്വലിപ്പിക്കുക, ഭ്രാന്തുപിടിപ്പിക്കുക, കലിയിളകുക
More languagesFewer languages
- infuriate in Kannada
- ಕನಲಿಸು, ಕನಲ್ಚು, ರೇಗಿಸು, ಕೆರಳಿಸು
Examples of infuriate in a sentence
- I was still revolted by their accents and infuriated by their habitual rudeness.1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, Penguin, published 1962, Part 2, Chapter 9, p. 131:
- US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has left Taiwan after a one-day visit that has infuriated China.2022 August 3, Zaheena Rasheed, “Pelosi in Taiwan live news: Tsai slams ‘unnecessary’ China drills”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the...
- Posky, who fled from her bungalow one night, pursued by her infuriate husband, wielding his second brandy bottle […]1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 32, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848...
- With an infuriate scream the dead awakened.1929, Thomas Wolfe, chapter 20, in Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Modern Library, page 280:
Synonyms of infuriate
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- embitter
- envenom
- gall
- get
- get to
- honk off
- incense
- inflame
- make angry
- nark
- offend
- outrage
- provoke
- put out
- rankle
- rile
- piss off
- roil
- set off
- steam
- tick off
- get one's back up
- get someone's dander up
- get someone's goat
- get someone's Irish up
- make someone see red
- make someone's blood boil
- put someone's back up
- raise someone's hackles
- raise someone's shag
Forms of infuriate
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | infuriates |
| present participle | infuriating |
| past participle | infuriated |
| past | infuriated |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more infuriate |
| superlative | most infuriate |
Origin of infuriate
First attested in 1667; borrowed from Medieval Latin infuriātus (“enraged”), perfect passive participle of infuriō (“to enrage”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin furia (“rage, fury, frenzy”); perhaps via Italian infuriato.
Words formed from infuriate
Questions about infuriate
- What does infuriate mean?
- Infuriate means to make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.
- What is infuriate in Tamil?
- Infuriate in Tamil is சினமூட்டிடு, சினமூட்டு, வெறியூட்டு. See Infuriate meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use infuriate in a sentence?
- I was still revolted by their accents and infuriated by their habitual rudeness.
- What part of speech is infuriate?
- Infuriate can be a verb or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce infuriate?
- Infuriate is pronounced /ɪnˈfjʊəɹieɪt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of infuriate?
- The past tense of infuriate is infuriated.
Words near infuriate in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: infuriate (page history and authors); infuriate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اشتعال دینا (Urdu) (page history and authors); Infuriate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); infuriate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); infuriate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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