enrage

Verb

Meaning

To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

madden anger provoke incense inflame infuriate exasperate harrow miff alar vex pique nettle ride upset
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Antonyms

gladden still referee gratify content encourage
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Hypernyms

anger

Phrases with the word

to enrage

Derivatives

enraged enraging

Anagrams

genera anegre angree Gerena Naeger Nagree Ngaree greane

Examples

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality? Annie Dillard

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me. Taylor Caldwell

Ill-timed admiration is enough to enrage a saint. Letitia Elizabeth Landon

[W]hat the dictatorship wants is presented as something we should want more. Most calls for subversion enrage the North. Not these though. Never these. Brian Reynolds Myers

The wise lamb does not enrage the lion, it placates him, plays for time, and hopes for the best. John Wyndham

I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed too old, and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection. Henry Rollins

Close letter words and terms

enquote ENR enrace enraged enragedly enragement