infuriate
verb/ɪnˈfjʊərieɪt/
/ɪnˈfjʊrieɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they infuriate | /ɪnˈfjʊərieɪt/ /ɪnˈfjʊrieɪt/ |
| he / she / it infuriates | /ɪnˈfjʊərieɪts/ /ɪnˈfjʊrieɪts/ |
| past simple infuriated | /ɪnˈfjʊərieɪtɪd/ /ɪnˈfjʊrieɪtɪd/ |
| past participle infuriated | /ɪnˈfjʊərieɪtɪd/ /ɪnˈfjʊrieɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form infuriating | /ɪnˈfjʊərieɪtɪŋ/ /ɪnˈfjʊrieɪtɪŋ/ |
- to make somebody extremely angry synonym enrage
- infuriate somebody Her silence infuriated him even more.
- Are you doing this on purpose just to infuriate me?
- it infuriates somebody that…/to do something It infuriates me that she was not found guilty.
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin infuriat- ‘made angry’, from the verb infuriare, from in- ‘into’ + Latin furia ‘fury’.Definitions on the go
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