Definition of "infuriate"
infuriate
verb
third-person singular simple present infuriates, present participle infuriating, simple past and past participle infuriated
To make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.
Quotations
He bent over Oliver, and repeated the inquiry; but finding him really incapable of understanding the question; and knowing that his not replying would only infuriate the magistrate the more, and add to the severity of his sentence; he hazarded a guess.
1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “11”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […]
I had […] no notion that the working class were human beings. […] I could agonise over their sufferings, but I still hated them and despised them when I came anywhere near them. I was still revolted by their accents and infuriated by their habitual rudeness.
1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, Penguin, published 1962, Part 2, Chapter 9, p. 131
adjective
comparative more infuriate, superlative most infuriate
(now rare) Filled with, characterized by or expressing fury.
Quotations
These [materials] in thir dark Nativitie the DeepShall yeild us, pregnant with infernal flame,Which into hallow Engins long and roundThick-rammd, at th’ other bore with touch of fireDilated and infuriate shall send forthFrom far with thundring noise among our foesSuch implements of mischief as shall dashTo pieces, and orewhelm whatever standsAdverse,
1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 482-490
[…] the steady tyrant man,Who with the thoughtless insolence of powerInflam’d, beyond the most infuriate rageOf the worst monster that e'er howl'd the waste,For sport alone takes up the cruel tract,
1728, James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, page 26, lines 392-396