"infuriate" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ɪnˈfjʊəɹieɪt/ [UK], /ɪnˈfjʊəɹɪət/ [UK] Audio: en-us-infuriate.ogg [US] Forms: more infuriate [comparative], most infuriate [superlative]
Etymology: From Medieval Latin infuriatus (“enraged”), past participle of infurio (“to enrage”), from Latin furia (“rage, fury, frenzy”), perhaps via Italian infuriato. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ML.|infuriatus||enraged}} Medieval Latin infuriatus (“enraged”), {{m|la|infurio||to enrage}} infurio (“to enrage”), {{der|en|la|furia||rage, fury, frenzy}} Latin furia (“rage, fury, frenzy”), {{bor|en|it|infuriato}} Italian infuriato Head templates: {{en-adj}} infuriate (comparative more infuriate, superlative most infuriate)
  1. (now rare) Filled with, characterized by or expressing fury. Tags: archaic Synonyms: enraged, furious, raging
    Sense id: en-infuriate-en-adj-7JzGF-jM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 88 12

Verb

IPA: /ɪnˈfjʊəɹieɪt/ [UK], /ɪnˈfjʊəɹɪət/ [UK] Audio: en-us-infuriate.ogg [US] Forms: infuriates [present, singular, third-person], infuriating [participle, present], infuriated [participle, past], infuriated [past]
Etymology: From Medieval Latin infuriatus (“enraged”), past participle of infurio (“to enrage”), from Latin furia (“rage, fury, frenzy”), perhaps via Italian infuriato. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ML.|infuriatus||enraged}} Medieval Latin infuriatus (“enraged”), {{m|la|infurio||to enrage}} infurio (“to enrage”), {{der|en|la|furia||rage, fury, frenzy}} Latin furia (“rage, fury, frenzy”), {{bor|en|it|infuriato}} Italian infuriato Head templates: {{en-verb}} infuriate (third-person singular simple present infuriates, present participle infuriating, simple past and past participle infuriated)
  1. To make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury. Synonyms: enrage, madden Derived forms: infuriated, infuriating, infuriation Translations (to make furious or mad with anger): разгневявам (razgnevjavam) (Bulgarian), вбесявам (vbesjavam) (Bulgarian), enfuriar (Catalan), enfurir (Catalan), rozzuřit (Czech), rendre furieux (French), enrager (French), wütend machen (German), zur Weißglut bringen (German), εξοργίζω (exorgízo) (Greek), whakariri (Maori), rozwścieczyć [perfective] (Polish), rozwścieczać [imperfective] (Polish), rozwścieklić [perfective] (Polish), rozwścieklać [imperfective] (Polish), enfurecer (Portuguese), злить (zlitʹ) (Russian), razbjèsniti [perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), razbješnjívati [imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), ražéstiti [perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), ražešćívati [imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), enfurecer (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-infuriate-en-verb-XbsNiHKo

Inflected forms

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      "word": "rozwścieklić"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to make furious or mad with anger",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "rozwścieklać"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to make furious or mad with anger",
      "word": "enfurecer"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zlitʹ",
      "sense": "to make furious or mad with anger",
      "word": "злить"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to make furious or mad with anger",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "razbjèsniti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to make furious or mad with anger",
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      "word": "razbješnjívati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to make furious or mad with anger",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "ražéstiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to make furious or mad with anger",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "ražešćívati"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to make furious or mad with anger",
      "word": "enfurecer"
    }
  ],
  "word": "infuriate"
}

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      "name": "bor"
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      "form": "more infuriate",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1929, Thomas Wolfe, chapter 20, in Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Modern Library, page 280",
          "text": "With an infuriate scream the dead awakened.",
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          "ref": "1951, William Styron, chapter 2, in Lie Down in Darkness, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 51",
          "text": "Until Peyton was born, bleak doubt assailed him. He looked at his wife’s body with suspicion and his own with infuriate guilt.",
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        "(now rare) Filled with, characterized by or expressing fury."
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