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infuriate

/ɪnˌfjuriˈeɪt/
/ɪnˈfjʊrieɪt/
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Other forms: infuriated; infuriating; infuriates

Different things infuriate different people: whatever makes you angry, mad, or ticked off infuriates you.

Fury is a word for "anger" that should help with this word: to infuriate is to fill someone with fury, i.e., anger. Unless you're new to the planet, you've probably noticed many things that are infuriating: people talking too loudly on their phones, the cancellation of your favorite TV show, stepping in a puddle, someone stealing from you, stubbing your toe. These annoying events could infuriate anyone. Sometimes you might infuriate someone else by accident. Like it or not, we all infuriate someone sometime.

Definitions of infuriate
  1. verb
    make furious
    synonyms: exasperate, incense
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    type of:
    anger
    make angry
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