infuriate
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infuriate
- /ɪnˈfjʊəɹieɪt/ UK
- /ɪnˈfjʊəɹɪət/
Where it comes from
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.
verb infuriates · infuriating · 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?
adjective more infuriate · 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 as
