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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
enrage
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
▪ She'd been so enraged he could just see it, and if she did they'd get the bill.
▪ I was so enraged I ran into the burning building.
▪ It's a problem that so enraged Martin Cutts of Words at Work that he took up a challenge to rewrite one.
■ VERB
become
▪ I remember caddying for a tour player who became enraged after fouling up a simple shot.
▪ However, they become enraged if the parents dare to go out for fun and leave them with the boring babysitter.
▪ She becomes enraged at his insensitivity.
▪ Needless to say, Lleland became enraged at the idea and told me to mind my own business.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The governor's racist comments enraged civil rights activists.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He enraged her, but he made her feel guilty.
▪ His trembling hands reached out toward the old woman, his eyes distended, enraged.
▪ In fact she would be enraged.
▪ Seven Guitars is enriched and enraged by its specific historical references, but it also goes way beyond them.
▪ This gruesome act does not lead to Agdisthus becoming crippled, or withdrawn, or enraged.
▪ This has enraged and dismayed most communicators.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enrage

Enrage \En*rage"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enraged; p. pr. & vb. n. Enraging.] [F. enrager to be enraged; pref. en- (L. in) + rage rage. See Rage.] To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.

Syn: To irritate; incense; inflame; exasperate; provoke; anger; madden; infuriate.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enrage

late 14c., "make furious or mad" (implied in enraged), from Old French enragier "go wild, go mad, lose one's senses," from en- "make, put in" (see en- (1)) + rage "rabies, rage" (see rage (n.)). Related: Enraging. Intransitive only in Old French; but the transitive sense is oldest and predominant in English.

Wiktionary
enrage

vb. To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.

WordNet
enrage

v. put into a rage; make violently angry

Usage examples of "enrage".

Nobain spun about to see the broad form of Mehrayn, astand with sword gripped tightly in fist, thoroughly enraged.

I was not astonished at seeing the way in which my fair Venetian caressed the countess, but I was enraged at not being able to see her, for I knew Marcoline would not treat any woman in that manner unless she were pretty.

The lad could almost see the face of the child, its humorous anger, its wilful triumph, and also the enraged look of the Bailly as he raked the stream with his long stick, tied with a sort of tassel of office.

I had to make up my mind to return to my inn, but the Binetti was so enraged that she began to scold her lover, at which he laughed, saying, with perfect truth, that he could not keep me there in defiance of the prince.

Tiretta now as enraged as Gaetan took him by his middle and threw him down, where, having no arms, he defended himself with kicks and fisticuffs, till the waiter came, and we put him out of the room.

Just then the girl came in, and the enraged mother flung an old pot which came handy, at her head.

The alcalde was enraged, but I did not let his ill-humour or his threats disturb me.

I thought how that sentence would enrage Dunster if he ever heard it spoken.

That means killing them by surprise or enraging them so they want to fight.

And she has become as fatalistic as he, and now she sings verses to the guzla, like Boris, or talks in corners with Michael, which makes the two enraged each with the other.

For fifteen months it lasted, the French remaining neutral, selling provisions to both sides, Gladwin defiant inside his palisades, the Indians persistent as enraged hornets.

On the green outside their cabin a husband with goitre, enraged against his goitrous wife, was kept from killing her by two elderly goitrous women.

The many voices of his workthe rhythms and stances of the clinical observer, sardonically twisted wit, enraged cynic, brilliant brooding doubter, keening griever after beauty or at least dignity, humble straight talker, and of course, the thunderare all his voice.

The many voices of his work -- the rhythms and stances of the clinical observer, sardonically twisted wit, enraged cynic, brilliant brooding doubter, keening griever after beauty or at least dignity, humble straight talker, and of course, the thunder -- are all his voice.

Warrant Gundy was enraged, to put it mildly, and started yelling about courts-martial, dawn executions, official reprimands, and so forth.