infuriates

verb

present tense third-person singular of infuriate
as in enrages
to make angry the quarterback's stupid mistake infuriated the coach

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Recent Examples of infuriates Georgia Supreme Court challenger Jen Jordan infuriates Republicans with a new fundraising email. — Adam Beam, AJC.com, 15 May 2026 To that end, Nate's extravagant wedding infuriates Naz, who thinks Nate has the ability to pay him back but is holding out on him. — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026 Ugh, Salley infuriates me more than people who stop at the top of the subway stairs to check their phone. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026 No one exemplifies that, and infuriates Twins fans more, than Ortiz. — Brian Hall, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2026 Unfortunately, Ashur’s idea to achieve this goal infuriates everyone. — 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
  1. enrages
  2. angers
  3. annoys
  4. irritates
  5. outrages
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  • The ghostly character doesn't have a particularly significant role in the story, but is a constant nuisance in the tapestry of Hogwarts with antics that include throwing things, making messes, pulling pranks, and generally causing mischief that enrages caretaker Argus Filch.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 15 June 2026
  • This is exactly the kind of mainstream Christian view that enrages Allie Beth Stuckey.
    — Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
Definition of enrages
Verb
  • According to the myth, Agamemnon angers the goddess Artemis by killing one of her sacred deer.
    — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 20 July 2026
  • Lai, who won election two years ago, and his ruling DPP champion Taiwan’s separate identity from China, a position ​that frequently angers Beijing, which views the island as an inviolable part of Chinese territory.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 19 July 2026
Definition of angers
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  • Hotel-booking platform HotelTonight surveyed 447 of its American adult users in June about what annoys them the most during travel.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 21 July 2026
  • But Turner is a symbol for everything that annoys people about the Phillies.
    — Matt Gelb, New York Times, 19 July 2026
Definition of annoys
Verb
  • The capsaicin in hot peppers irritates pests and deters them from feeding on plants.
    — Farima Ferguson, The Spruce, 15 July 2026
  • Anyone who has sat through a mandatory team-building exercise knows the difference between a ritual that binds and a program that irritates.
    — Julia Dhar, Time, 11 July 2026
Definition of irritates
Verb
  • This baffles and outrages Angela, a protective mom who, with other parents, pushes back against Gabor using her math classroom as a forum for introducing the outside world’s worst actions.
    — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The content outrages some people and delights others; publishing more of it advances the meta discourse that’s been layered on top of the actual news, drawing attention from the unfolding conflict itself.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
Definition of outrages

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