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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
infuriate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ This had so infuriated Moustaine that he had decided to punish them, which meant the rest of us as well.
▪ Henry was so infuriated by the childlike look of loss on his face he had half a mind to give him some.
▪ She didn't think she had ever met a man who so infuriated her.
▪ Their laughter so infuriated me that I began to have thoughts of revenge.
▪ It was the uncertainty that was so infuriating, not knowing where she was.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Her racist attitudes infuriated her co-workers.
▪ Kramer's stubborn refusal to answer any questions infuriated the officers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infuriate

Infuriate \In*fu"ri*ate\, a. [It. infuriato, p. p. of infuriare. See Infuriate, v. t.] Enraged; raging; furiously angry; infuriated.
--Milton.

Inflamed beyond the most infuriate wrath.
--Thomson.

Infuriate

Infuriate \In*fu"ri*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Infuriated; p. pr. & vb. n. Infuriating] [It. infuriato, p. p. of infuriare; pref. in- (L. in) + furia fury, L. furi

  1. See Fury.] To render furious; to enrage; to exasperate.

    Those curls of entangled snakes with which Erinys is said to have infuriated Athemas and Ino.
    --Dr. H. More.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
infuriate

1660s, from Italian infuriato, from Medieval Latin infuriatus, past participle of infuriare "to madden," from Latin in furia "in a fury," from ablative of furia (see fury). Related: Infuriated; infuriating; infuriatingly.

Wiktionary
infuriate
  1. (context now rare English) enraged, furious. v

  2. To make furious or mad with anger; to enrage

WordNet
infuriate

v. make furious [syn: exasperate, incense]

Usage examples of "infuriate".

In November he demanded that Adams explain his actions, and in a tone bound to infuriate Adams.

For Adams, who had banked so much on Gerry against the advice of nearly everyone, it was a painful, infuriating turn of events, as once again Abigail reported to Mary.

Pam Bichon was my friend and business partner, and it infuriates me that the focus on her case has shifted to the rights of the man who terrorized and killed her.

It was animal abuse at its worst, made more infuriating by the ludicrous claims of specialists that the dogs could not be safely detrained.

This was one of the stipulations which infuriated the Germans the most, not only because they resented separating East Prussia from the Fatherland by a corridor which gave Poland access to the sea, but because they despised the Poles, whom they considered an inferior race.

The thought of Kalina holding that position for Jardonia was infuriating.

Tom Shaughnessy was like a mirror in which the world was reflected backward, different, brand-new, infuriating.

The transfer of priceless relics to private collections infuriated him, but it would serve no purpose to alienate Steinmann before he got his chance to study the chest.

It all went back, Jim knew, to something the dragons had always considered an insult: the fact that the early Vikings and other Scandinavian seafarers had used to take down the dragon-heads of their ships when they came into shore, because they thought the sight of the dragon heads would infuriate the trolls of the land.

The road unravels with infuriating slowness, its black wall wearilessly rising in front of his headlights no matter how they twist.

Her mother, thought Beatrice peevishly, could at times be quite infuriating.

But as a taste of blood will infuriate a hound, so her own laughter seemed to bereave Bianca of all restraint.

The speech infuriated the Republicans and the Vice President, and no less was the anger of the High Federalists in Congress, who had expected a declaration of war.

It designates that pride and insolence which infuriates the gods and causes them to strike men down at the height of their success.

However, before the Security Council could act, UNSCOM Chairman Ekeus flew to Baghdad and negotiated a new agreement on inspections with Iraq that infuriated the U.