infuriate

/in'fjuərieit/

Thân thiện

The customer's rude comment began to infuriate the normally calm manager.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To make someone extremely angry; to fill with intense fury or rage.

Usage

• Verb: The word "infuriate" is a transitive verb, meaning it requires a direct object. It describes the action of causing someone to become furiously angry. It often implies a strong, sometimes uncontrollable, emotional reaction.

Examples

• Verb:
  • His constant interruptions during the meeting infuriated his colleagues.
  • The unfair decision infuriated the entire community.
  • It infuriates me when people are deliberately rude.

Advanced Usage

• "to be infuriated by/at something": This common passive construction describes the state of being made extremely angry by a specific cause.
  • She was infuriated by the lack of progress.
  • The fans were infuriated at the referee's call.

Variants and Related Words

• Infuriating (adj.): Causing intense anger; extremely annoying.
  • His infuriating habit of arriving late drove everyone crazy.
• Infuriation (n.): The state or feeling of being infuriated. (Note: This noun is less common than the adjective or verb forms).

Synonyms

• Enrage: To make very angry.
• Irate: Very angry (an adjective describing the state, not the cause).
• Incense: To make very angry, often with a sense of indignation.

Antonyms

• Pacify: To soothe anger or agitation.
• Placate: To make someone less angry or hostile.
• Calm: To make someone tranquil and quiet.

Phrasal Verbs / Related Constructions

• Infuriate someone into doing something: To anger someone so much that they are driven to a particular action.
  • The scandal infuriated the public into demanding immediate reforms.

Học thuật

Verb

1. make furious

Từ đồng nghĩa

• exasperate
• incense