as in enrages
to make angry
the quarterback's stupid mistake infuriated the coach
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Recent Examples of infuriates
Unfortunately, Ashur’s idea to achieve this goal infuriates everyone.
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025
Investigative reporting is bad enough; often what really infuriates him is jokes.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
Elsewhere, the photo of Cartman is a reference to his reaction of Clyde’s incendiary new podcast that has a right wing theme that infuriates the perpetual instigator.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025
Investigative reporting is bad enough; often what really infuriates him is jokes.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
Elsewhere, the photo of Cartman is a reference to his reaction of Clyde’s incendiary new podcast that has a right wing theme that infuriates the perpetual instigator.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for infuriates
Verb
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This enrages Rebecca, who demands half his new salary, and the pair engage in a battle for control.—
Ilana Gordon,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Dec. 2025
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While this violation enrages the village’s women, the men who make up the Panchayat (village council) try and fail to cast her out of town.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
Verb
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What angers me is thinking about what could have been.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
12 Dec. 2025
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And nothing angers the Survivor gods more than reality TV hubris.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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One of its two young sibling protagonists, Amber (Bianca Belle), channels her feelings about the recent death of her mother into drawings of creatures born out of her troubled imagination, some of whom enact violence against the classmate who annoys her.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
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There's just one thing about Claire Danes that annoys Matthew Rhys.—
Yamillah Hurtado,
PEOPLE,
22 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Somehow, this irritates Helen even more.—
Sadia Shepard,
New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2026
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In other words, alcohol disrupts hydration, irritates the gut, inflames blood vessels, messes with sleep, and forces your liver into metabolic overdrive.—
Ciara Lucas,
SELF,
30 Dec. 2025
Verb
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The thing that outrages, the thing that shocks, the thing that elicits the greatest response, and the greatest response of all of those emotional reactions is outrage, is fear, is shock, is anger.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
31 Dec. 2025
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Content that outrages, polarizes or triggers anxiety keeps us watching.—
Avital Pardo,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Infuriates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infuriates. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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