infuriate (infuriates, present participle infuriating; past and past participle infuriated)
- To make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.
- Synonyms: enrage, madden
- 1615, Edwin Sandys (died 1629), Sacred Hymns, Consisting of fifti select psalms of David and others, paraphrastically turned into English verse, London, “Psalm 2,” p. 2,
- What graceles fears, strange hates, may Nations so affright,
- Infuriate so; gainst God with mad attempts to fight?
- 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace, London: J. Owen, Letter 2, p. 105,
- They tore the deputation of the Clergy to pieces by their infuriated declamations and invectives, before they lacerated their bodies by their massacres.
- 1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Chapter 11,
- He bent over Oliver, and repeated the inquiry; but finding him really incapable of understanding the question; and knowing that his not replying would only infuriate the magistrate the more, and add to the severity of his sentence; he hazarded a guess.
- 1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, Penguin, 1962, Part 2, Chapter 9, p. 131,
- I had […] no notion that the working class were human beings. […] I could agonise over their sufferings, but I still hated them and despised them when I came anywhere near them. I was still revolted by their accents and infuriated by their habitual rudeness.
- See also Thesaurus:enrage
- French: rendre furieux, enrager
- German: wütend machen, zur Weißglut bringen
- Russian: злить
- Spanish: enfurecer
- (now rare) Filled with, characterized by or expressing fury.
- Synonyms: enraged, furious, raging
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 6, lines 482-490,[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1667)/Book_VI]
- 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 as shall dash
- To pieces, and orewhelm whatever stands
- 1735, James Thomson (poet, born 1700), The Seasons (Thomson), London: J. Millan & A. Millar, “Autumn,” lines 392-396, p. 26,
- […] 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,
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (novel), Chapter 32,
- […] she housed and sheltered Mrs. Posky, who fled from her bungalow one night, pursued by her infuriate husband, wielding his second brandy bottle […]
- 1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Modern Library, Chapter 20, p. 280,
- With an infuriate scream the dead awakened.
- 1951, William Styron, Lie Down in Darkness, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Chapter 2, p. 51,
- Until Peyton was born, bleak doubt assailed him. He looked at his wife’s body with suspicion and his own with infuriate guilt.