to infuriate

Examples

• All

• The unfair decision by the referee infuriated the players and their fans.

• Well, King makes a decision that infuriates Ruston, and they have a very tense relationship in general.

• You trying to infuriate me?!

  Ideal Home (2018)

• - Does it infuriate you?

  Mystery Men (1999)

• His calm in disasters used to infuriate me, but by now I was used to it.

  Fiction book (1994)

• "You guys live with security measures that really infuriate the Joint Chiefs."

  Fiction book (1991)

• You know how the cause infuriates Mr. Banks.

  Mary Poppins (1964)

• Doesn't that music infuriate you?

  The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)

• Unfortunately, when it came to math, she was hopeless, and that infuriated her father.

  Fiction book (1998)

• I think that infuriates people and rightly so.

  Megyn Kelly

Synonyms

P

to provoke

vsto infuriate

144 3.6

Annoy someone again and again to make them react

creates immediate extreme anger rather than repeated annoyance for reaction

O

to outrage

vsto infuriate

143 3.9

Make people feel very angry and shocked

focuses on extreme anger alone rather than including disgust

A

to anger

vsto infuriate

114 1.0

To make someone very upset or annoyed

means causing intense fury rather than milder upset

E

to enrage

vsto infuriate

68 3.7

To make someone very angry

is the same in meaning and intensity

I

to inflame

vsto infuriate

31 5.8

To make people's feelings stronger, especially anger or hate

increases feelings rather than causing sudden extreme anger

I

to incense

vsto infuriate

• Formal

20 6.1

To make someone very angry

is the same in meaning and intensity

G

to gall

vsto infuriate

8 7.1

To annoy someone deeply

produces much stronger, extreme anger rather than mere irritation

M

to make one's blood boil

vsto infuriate

• Informal

6 7.0

To cause someone to feel very angry

is the same in meaning and intensity

E

to enflame

vsto infuriate

6.4

To make feelings like anger or excitement stronger

means creating extreme anger specifically rather than intensifying feelings

Antonyms

C

to calm

962 1.0

Make a person or animal less upset

S

to soothe

63 3.4

To make someone feel calmer or reduce their pain

How Angry

to infuriate

46 5.0

to irritate

78 2.9

to annoy

246 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology