Enrage

Definition: Enrage

Enrage

Verb

1. Put into a rage; make violently angry.

Date "enrage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Note: Enrage \En*rage"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Enraged; present participle verb or noun Enraging.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Enrage

Synonyms: anger, exasperate, incense, inflame, infuriate, madden, provoke. (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Aggravation	Verb: aggravate, render worse, heighten, embitter, sour; exacerbate; exasperate, envenom; enrage, provoke, tease.
Desire	Eager, avid, keen; burning, fervent, ardent; agog; all agog; breathless; impatient; (impetuous); bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon, set upon; mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire.
Pain	Irritate, provoke, sting, nettle, try the patience, pique, fret, rile, tweak the nose, chafe, gall; sting to the quick, wound to the quick, cut to the quick; aggrieve, affront, enchafe, enrage, ruffle, sour the temper; give offense; (resentment).
Resentment	Cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite; irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard; rankle &e.; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Enrage

English words defined with "enrage": Enchafe, Enraging. (references)

Etymologies containing "enrage": Enchafe. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Enrage" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (enrages).

Domain	Title
Books	Cape Enrage (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Voltaire	I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	It did not require much more to enrage Monsieur Gillenormand.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Minorities	India	On March 21, in Punjab a Koran was burned and pig parts were thrown into a mosque by members of a Hindu group in a attempt to enrage Muslims. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Enrage" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Enrage" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	80%	16	87,710
Lexical Verb (base form)	15%	3	202,518
Noun (proper)	5%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	20	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "enrage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zemëroj (anger, annoy, fret, huff, incense, irritate, offend, provoke, vex), xhindos (anger, chafe, infuriate, irritate, madden), tërboj (drive wild, infuriate, make furious), nxeh (chafe, cook, excite, gall, heat, irritate, make angry, Mull, rile, roil, torrefy, vex), inatos (anger, displease, exasperate, gall, make angry, pique, rile, spite, throw out). (various references)

Arabic		‏حنق (anger, exasperation, foam, frenzy, fury, infuriate, ire, irritation, look savage, rage, resent, wrath), ‏غضب (aggravate, anger, annoy, be angry, be irritated, chafe, crab, dander, displease, embitter, exasperate, exasperation, fire, flounce, fret, fume, gall, get on his nerves, get smb.'s goat, go mad, grumpiness, harrow, heat, incense, indignation, inflame, infuriate, irascibility, ire, irritate, irritation, itch, jitter, lose one's shirt, mad, madden, miff, nettle, offend, outcry, outrage, peeve, pet, pique, pout, provoke, rage, resentment, rile, rough, ruffle, seethe, soreness, sour, spite, spleen, twit, vex), ‏أسخط (exasperate, incense, irritate, rub). (various references)

Bulgarian		разярявам (incense), вбесявам (aggravate, exasperate, incense, infuriate, mad, madden, tease). (various references)

Czech		rozzuřit (exasperate, infuriate), dopálit (madden, needle). (various references)

Farsi		عصبانی کردن (Blood, Blowup, Crab, Irritate, Mad, Madden), خشمگین کردن (Aggravate, Anger, Annoy, Ensnare, Exasperate, Incense, Irritate, Provoke, Tar, Vex). (various references)

Finnish		vihastuttaa (exasperate, make angry), saattaa vimmoihinsa (infuriate, make furious), raivostuttaa (drive mad, infuriate, make furious). (various references)

French		rendre furieux, mettre en rage, mettre en fureur. (various references)

German		wütend machen (infuriate, to enrage). (various references)

Greek		εξαγριώνω (infuriate). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"כעיס (anger, incense, nettle, spite), ל�"רתיח (boil, heat, infuriate), ל�"רעים (boom, thunder), ל�"ר�'יש (cause storm, excite, feel, sense), ל�"ר�'יז (aggravate, annoy, displease, incense, madden, miff, molest, needle, offend, peeve, provoke, rile, ruffle, spite, vex). (various references)

Hungarian		feldühít (he gets my goat, to infuriate, to make one's blood boil, to make sick, to rouse), felbõszít (exasperate). (various references)

Indonesian		menimbulkan marah. (various references)

Italian		esasperare (aggravate, apply, become bitter, exacerbate, exasperate, irritate), irritare (anger, annoy, become irritated, chafe, fret, gall, irritate, nettle, provoke, rile, rouse, tease, to irritate, vex), imbestialire (become furious, get enraged), far infuriare (infuriate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		息巻く (to enrage, to infuriate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		いきまく (to enrage, to infuriate). (various references)

Manx		cur farg er (infuriate, vex), cur corree er (aggravate, displease). (various references)

Norwegian		gjøre rasende (incense, infuriate). (various references)

Pig Latin		enrageay

Portuguese		enraivecer (infuse), investigação (canvass, disquisitional, Evaluation of the contamination at the site, exploration, inquiry, inquisition, inquisitorial, investigation, quest, research, rummage, site inspection, study, which includes sampling.Takes place when the preliminary assessment suggests that environment and public health are endangered by a suspect site.), arrebatar (carry away, claw, enrapture, entrance, force, grab, overjoy, ravish, snatch, swoop, take, thrill, transport). (various references)

Romanian		înfuria (anger, diabolize, exasperate, get smb.'s dander up, huff, infuriate, mad, madden, make one's blood boil, provoke, rouse to fury). (various references)

Russian		разъярять, разозлить, взбесить (infuriate), приводить в ярость (infuriate, raise the gorge). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		razjariti (incense, infuriate), pomamiti. (various references)

Spanish		ensañar, enrabiar, enfurecer (burn up, infuriate, madden), encarnizar (acerbate), embravecer (flourish), hacer rabiar. (various references)

Swedish		reta upp (exasperate, get to, incense), göra rasande (exasperate, frenzy, incense, infuriate). (various references)

Thai		ทำให้โมโห. (various references)

Turkish		kudurtmak (frenzy, infuriate, lash into a fury, make hopping mad, send smb. up the wall), kızdırmak (aggravate, anger, annoy, badger, bait, bug, burn, chafe, exacerbate, exasperate, gall, get across, get in one's hair, heat, heat up, huff, incense, inflame, infuriate, irritate, nettle, overheat, peeve, play to, provoke, put about, put out, put smb. out of temper, put smb.'s nose out of joint, rile, rough the wrong way, rouse, ruffle smb.'s temper, steam up, superheat, tease, twit, vex), çileden çıkarmak (aggravate, incense, infuriate). (various references)

Ukranian		скаженіти (get furious), розлютовувати. (various references)

Welsh		gwylltio (fly into a passion, frighten), ffyrnigo (grow fierce), cynddeiriogi (madden). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	concitant, concitantem, concitantur, concitasti, concitat, concitata, concitate, concitati, concitatus, concitaverit, concitaverunt, concitavit, concitetur, concito, incitari, incitat, incitavit. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	gebelgan, gremian. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "enrage": enraged, enrages. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Enrage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anfrage, Arnage, Cenargo, earragh, Elruge, enage, enare, engare, Enmag, enra, enrag, enrile, entage, entrage, enwage, Ernaga, eroge, inrage, menarge, Neagoe, Nuraghe. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "enrage" (pronounced enrā"j)
3	-r ā" j	rage.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: genera.
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-n-r"
	-1 letter: agene, agree, anger, eager, eagre, genre, green, ragee, ranee, range, regna.
	-2 letters: agee, ager, earn, eger, erne, gaen, gane, gear, gene, gnar, gran, gree, near, rage, rang.
	-3 letters: age, ane, are, ear, eng, era, ere, erg, ern, gae, gan, gar, gee, gen, nae, nag, nee, rag, ran, ree, reg.
	-4 letters: ae, ag, an, ar, en, er, na, ne, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-n-r"
	+1 letter: angered, avenger, derange, engager, engrave, enlarge, enraged, enrages, general, germane, gleaner, grandee, grantee, greaten, grenade, negater, reagent, rebegan, reginae, uneager.
	+2 letters: agreeing, algerine, allergen, anergies, avengers, bargemen, carageen, dangered, deranged, deranges, dungaree, endanger, engagers, engramme, engraved, engraver, engraves, enlarged, enlarger, enlarges, estrange, gadarene, gandered, gangrene, gardened, gardener, garnered, gendarme, generals, generate, gesneria, gleaners, grandees, grantees, gratinee, greatens, greenway, grenades, interage, negaters, perigean, razeeing, reagents, rechange, reengage, regained, regainer, regental, rehanged, renegade, renegado, sangaree, sergeant, shagreen, teenager, underage.
	+3 letters: agentries, agreement, algerines, allergens, angerless, argentine, argentite, aubergine, augmenter, beavering, begroaned, bereaving, carageens, careening, careering, carrageen, denigrate, deraigned, dungarees, eagerness, embrangle, encourage, endangers, endearing, engrafted, engrailed, engrained, engrammes, engravers, enlargers, entangler, entourage, estranged, estranger, estranges, exchanger, farseeing, gaberdine, gangrened, gangrenes, garagemen, gardeners, garmented, garnishee, gendarmes, generable, generally, generated, generates, generator, geomancer, germander, germanely, germanize, germinate, gesneriad, glandered, grapevine, gratineed, gratinees, graveness, greatened, greatness, greenback, greengage, greenhead, greenmail, greensand, greenways, gregarine, grenadier, grenadine, grievance, guarantee, habergeon, integrate, largeness, laveering, legendary, margented, menagerie, merganser, orangeade, orangerie, organelle, parentage, passenger, personage, pregnable, realigned, rearrange, rechanged, rechanges, recoinage, rectangle, reearning, reengaged, reengages, reengrave, regainers, regearing, regranted, rehearing, reheating, reimagine, releasing, renegaded, renegades, renegados, repealing, repeating, rereading, resealing, reseating, reteaming, retearing, revealing, reweaving, sangarees, scavenger, segregant, sergeancy, sergeants, sergeanty, shagreens, sloganeer, stingaree, subgenera, tangerine, teenagers, teratogen, unaverage, underages, vinegared.
	+4 letters: adrenergic, agreements, allergenic, antimerger, argentines, argentites, aubergines, augmenters, baronetage, besmearing, bewearying, camerlengo, carrageens, carragheen, centigrade, challenger, changeover, cinemagoer, congregate, deaerating, decreasing, degeneracy, degenerate, degreasing, denigrated, denigrates, dermatogen, dewatering, emarginate, embrangled, embrangles, encouraged, encourager, encourages, endangered, enervating, enfleurage, entanglers, entourages, entreating, ergotamine, estrangers, estreating, exchangers, execrating, feathering, federating, firefanged, fragmented, freebasing, gaberdines, garbagemen, garnierite, garnisheed, garnishees, gearchange, gendarmery, generalise, generalist, generality, generalize, generating, generation, generative, generators, generatrix, geomancers, germanders, germanized, germanizes, germinated, germinates, gesneriads, goaltender, governable, governance, grandniece, grapevines, gravestone, graynesses, greasiness, greatening, grecianize, greenbacks, greengages, greenheads, greenheart, greenmails, greensands, greenshank, greensward, gregarines, grenadiers, grenadines, grievances, guaranteed, guarantees, habergeons, hatemonger, hearkening, heartening, impregnate, ingathered, integrable, integrated, integrates, intergrade, interregna, interstage, leaguering, leathering, leveraging, loungewear, magnetizer, malingered, malingerer, manageress, meagerness, meandering, menageries, mergansers, orangeades, orangeries, organelles, outgeneral, overeating, overmanage, parentages, passengers, percentage, permeating, personages, prearrange, pregenital, prehearing, preheating, preweaning, raggedness, ravagement, reacceding, realtering, reannexing, reargument, rearranged, rearranges, reassigned, recleaning, recoinages, recreating, rectangles, redreaming, reenacting, reengaging, reengraved, reengraves, regelating, regeneracy, regenerate, regimental, regnancies, rehearings, rehearsing, reimagined, reimagines, relabeling, relearning, relegating, relegation, renegading, renegadoes, reorganize, repaneling, repapering, repleading, repugnance, rereadings, respeaking, reteaching, retreading, retreating, rewakening, ringleader, scavengers, segmentary, segregants, seignorage, serenading, sloganeers, spongeware, steamering, stingarees, strangered, superagent, tangerines, teratogens, underglaze, unenlarged, vegetarian, venerating, vernissage, weathering.
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