infuriate
infuriate Lexical Profile
infuriate Game Scores & Validity
• verb
To make someone extremely angry and impatient; to fill with fury or rage.
"The airline's refusal to reimburse passengers for the canceled flight continued to infuriate travelers."
• adjective
Filled with fury or rage; intensely angry or enraged (now archaic or literary).
"The poet described an infuriate crowd gathering outside the palace gates to demand justice."
Word Nuance & Usage
While almost exclusively used today as a transitive verb meaning 'to make furious', 'infuriate' also survives in older or literary contexts as a participial adjective meaning 'enraged', though 'infuriated' is now standard in modern English.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the early 17th century from Medieval Latin infuriatus, the past participle of infuriare ('to drive to madness or fury'), formed from the prefix in- ('into') and furia ('rage, madness').
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