in·fu·ri·ate

(ĭn-fyo͝or′ē-āt′)

tr.v. in·fu·ri·at·ed, in·fu·ri·at·ing, in·fu·ri·ates

To make furious; enrage.

adj. (ĭn-fyo͝or′ē-ĭt) Archaic

Furious.

[Medieval Latin īnfuriāre, īnfuriāt- : Latin in-, intensive pref.; see in-² + Latin furiāre, to enrage (from furia, fury; see fury).]

in·fu′ri·at′ing·ly adv.

in·fu′ri·a′tion n.

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infuriated

(ɪnˈfjʊərɪˌeɪtɪd)

adj

furious

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Adj.

infuriated - marked by extreme anger; "the enraged bull attached"; "furious about the accident"; "a furious scowl"; "infuriated onlookers charged the police who were beating the boy"; "could not control the maddened crowd"

angered, enraged, maddened, furious

angry - feeling or showing anger; "angry at the weather"; "angry customers"; "an angry silence"; "sending angry letters to the papers"

infuriated

adjective angry, mad (informal), furious, heated, raging, provoked, outraged, annoyed, passionate, irritated, hacked (off) (U.S. slang), choked, pissed (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. slang), incensed, enraged, exasperated, resentful, nettled, indignant, pissed off (taboo slang), irate, riled, up in arms, incandescent, antagonized, piqued, hot under the collar (informal), on the warpath, foaming at the mouth, choleric, splenetic, wrathful, in high dudgeon, ireful He realized how infuriated this would make me.

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Translations

infuriated

[ɪnˈfjʊəriətɪd] adj → furieux/euse
"That's absolute rubbish!" said the infuriated Colin → "Ce ne sont que des fadaises!" dit Colin, furieux.
to be infuriated with sb → être furieux/euse contre qn
to be infuriated by sth → être rendu furieux/euse par qch
The champion was infuriated by the decision → Le champion fut rendu furieux par la décision.

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Not content with this, he broke off a stout branch, and, holding on with one hand and foot, jabbed the infuriated beasts in the sides and whacked them across their noses.

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The French invaders, like an infuriated animal that has in its onslaught received a mortal wound, felt that they were perishing, but could not stop, any more than the Russian army, weaker by one half, could help swerving.

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Infuriated by political animosity, the wives in many a noble household wearied their lords with prayers to give up their opposition to the Colour Bill; and some, finding their entreaties fruitless, fell on and slaughtered their innocent children and husband, perishing themselves in the act of carnage.

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Without more ado, therefore, I turned to meet the charge of the infuriated bull ape.

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I am, perhaps, unduly sensitive, but I confess that the idea of being suddenly spilt into an infuriated ocean in the midst of darkness and uproar affected me always with a sensation of shrinking distaste.

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And this lack of candor in a matter of such gravity infuriated him.

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Such a gentleman simply dashes straight for his object like an infuriated bull with its horns down, and nothing but a wall will stop him.

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The ex-Zouave, infuriated; wounded in his honor, disgraced as a professor, insisted on an explanation.

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If he could reach the bottom and cover half the distance to the tree that stood in the center of the gulch he would feel comparatively safe for then, even if Numa appeared, he felt that he could beat him either to the cliff or to the tree, but to scale the first thirty feet of the cliff rapidly enough to elude the leaping beast would require a running start of at least twenty feet as there were no very good hand- or footholds close to the bottom--he had had to run up the first twenty feet like a squirrel running up a tree that other time he had beaten an infuriated Numa to it.

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It was a pictorial sheet, and Jo examined the work of art nearest her, idly wondering what fortuitous concatenation of circumstances needed the melodramatic illustration of an Indian in full war costume, tumbling over a precipice with a wolf at his throat, while two infuriated young gentlemen, with unnaturally small feet and big eyes, were stabbing each other close by, and a disheveled female was flying away in the background with her mouth wide open.

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But Lena Lingard only laughed her lazy, good-natured laugh and rode on, gazing back over her shoulder at Ole's infuriated wife.

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The Fairy entered with them, and warned the Queen that the Wizard King would shortly arrive, infuriated by his loss, and that nothing could preserve the Prince and Princess from his rage and magic unless they were actually married.

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