Infuriate

Definition: Infuriate

Infuriate

Verb

1. Make furious.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "infuriate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Infuriate

Excitation

Irritate, sting; cut to the heart, cut to the quick; try one's temper; fool to the top of one's bent, pique; infuriate, madden, make one's blood boil; lash into fury; (wrath).

Resentment

Fierce, wild, rageful, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage; relentless.

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.

Violence

Turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging; Verb: troublous, riotous; tumultuary, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, inextinguishable, tameless; frenzied; (insane). desperate; (rash); infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics.

Render violent; Adjective: sharpen, stir up, quicken, excite, incite, annoy, urge, lash, stimulate, turn on; irritate, inflame, kindle, suscitate, foment; accelerate, aggravate, exasperate, exacerbate, convulse, infuriate, madden, lash into fury; fan the flame; add fuel to the flame, pour oil on the fire, oleum addere camino.

Books

• A real nice but: articles that inspire, inform and infuriate (reference)

• How to Lose Friends & Infuriate People: Leadership in the Networked World (reference)

  (more book examples)

Albanian

xhindos (anger, chafe, enrage, irritate, madden), tërboj (drive wild, enrage, make furious), egërsoj. (various references)

Arabic 

‏محنق (angry, furious, wrathful), ‏حنق (anger, enrage, exasperation, foam, frenzy, fury, ire, irritation, look savage, rage, resent, wrath), ‏غيظ (anger, annoy, chafe, embitter, fret, gall, incense, ire, irritate, madden, nettle, offend, peeve, pique, provoke, rage, resentment, rib, rile, ruffle, scandalize, spite, twit, vex, wrath), ‏غضب (aggravate, anger, annoy, be angry, be irritated, chafe, crab, dander, displease, embitter, enrage, exasperate, exasperation, fire, flounce, fret, fume, gall, get on his nerves, get smb.'s goat, go mad, grumpiness, harrow, heat, incense, indignation, inflame, 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), ‏أثار (aggravate, arouse, awaken, bestir, burn, chafe, elicit, engage, evoke, exacerbate, exalt, excite, fan, ferment, flurry, foment, fray, frazzle, fret, fuss, gall, get, gravel, gripe, heat, impassion, inflame, inspire, instigate, irritate, itch, jog, jostle, kindle, madden, move, outrage, pique, remnant, rile, rouse, sour, stimulate, switch on, tease, thrill, touch off, transport, trigger, trouble, turn on, unsettle, urge, vex, whet, whip, work). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разгневявам (anger, go mad, lash, warm), вбесявам (aggravate, enrage, exasperate, incense, mad, madden, tease). (various references)

Chinese 

激怒 . (various references)

Czech

rozzuřit (enrage, exasperate), rozvzteklit (blow a gasket, hit the ceiling), rozbìsnit. (various references)

Farsi 

اتشی کردن , بسیارخشمگین کردن . (various references)

Finnish

saattaa vimmoihinsa (enrage, make furious), raivostuttaa (drive mad, enrage, make furious). (various references)

French

inciter (incite), rendre furieux, rageant (infuriating), mettre en fureur (incense), exaspérer (incense), exaspérant (infuriating). (various references)

German

wütend machen (enrage). (various references)

Greek 

εξαγριώνω (enrage). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעורר (alarm, alert, appeal, contest, excite, inspire, instigate, occasion, promote, prompt, spark, spirit, stimulate, stir up), לזעום (be angry, fume, rage), להקציף (froth, provoke), להרתיח (boil, enrage, heat), להסעיר (agitate, excite). (various references)

Hungarian

vadít (make wild), felbosszant (to anger, to infuriate, to irritate), dühbe hoz (to burn up, to infuriate). (various references)

Indonesian

menggeramkan (stir up passion), memarahkan. (various references)

Italian

far infuriare (enrage). (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 (enrage, vex). (various references)

Norwegian

gjøre rasende (enrage, incense). (various references)

Pig Latin

infuriateay.(various references)

Portuguese

enraivecer (enrage), enfurecer (anger, madden, run wild, tee off). (various references)

Romanian

scoate din fire (rattle), mânia (anger, chafe, make angry, provoke), înfuria (anger, diabolize, enrage, exasperate, get smb.'s dander up, huff, mad, madden, make one's blood boil, provoke, rouse to fury). (various references)

Russian 

приводить в ярость (enrage, raise the gorge). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

revoltirati, razjariti (enrage, incense), razbesneti (drive wild, fly into a rage, make hopping mad). (various references)

Spanish

enfurecer (burn up, enrage, madden). (various references)

Swedish

göra rasande (enrage, exasperate, frenzy, incense). (various references)

Turkish

kudurtmak (enrage, frenzy, lash into a fury, make hopping mad, send smb. up the wall), kızdırmak (aggravate, anger, annoy, badger, bait, bug, burn, chafe, enrage, exacerbate, exasperate, gall, get across, get in one's hair, heat, heat up, huff, incense, inflame, 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), deli etmek (blow one's mind, drive crazy, drive mad, drive smb. nuts, drive smb. round the bend, drive smb. to distraction, drive smb. up the wall, drive smb. wild, exasperate, madden, send smb. flying, send smb. mad, send smb. up the wall), çileden çıkarmak (aggravate, enrage, incense). (various references)

Ukrainian

розлючувати. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "infuriate": infuriated, infuriates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Infuriate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incurvate, informate, iniuria, inpuriate, inurate, invetriata. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: antifur, fainter, inertia, niftier, ruinate, taurine, unifier, uranite, urinate.

-3 letters: auntie, fainer, finite, furane, infare, nature, nutria, ratine, retain, retina, tinier, triune, unfair, uniter.

-4 letters: afire, afrit, after, antre, aurei, entia, faint, feint, feria, feuar, finer, frena, fruit, furan, inert, infer, infra, inter, inure, irate, niter, nitre, refit, retia, riant, rutin, tenia, terai.

+1 letter: infuriated, infuriates, quantifier.

+2 letters: quantifiers.

+3 letters: interfluvial, titaniferous, unstratified.

+4 letters: configurative, functionaries, nonfigurative, prefiguration, refundability, reunification, ultrafeminine, uninformative.

+5 letters: antifilibuster, centrifugation, figurativeness, interfaculties, prefigurations, preunification, reunifications, ultraefficient, underinflation.