infuriate

Word origin

First attested in 1667; borrowed from Medieval Latin infuriātus (“enraged”), perfect passive participle of infuriō (“to enrage”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin furia (“rage, fury, frenzy”); perhaps via Italian infuriato.

Used in a sentence

• “What graceles fears, strange hates, may Nations so affright, Infuriate so; gainst God with mad attempts to fight?”

• “US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has left Taiwan after a one-day visit that has infuriated China.”

• “[…] the steady tyrant man, Who with the thoughtless insolence of power Inflam’d, beyond the most infuriate rage Of the worst monster that e'er howl'd the waste, For sport alone takes up the cruel tract,”

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