(v. t.) To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.
Example Sentences:
(1) The euro elite insists it is representing the interests of Portuguese or Irish taxpayers who have to pick up the bill for bailing out the feckless Greeks – or will be enraged by any debt forgiveness when they have been forced to swallow similar medicine.
(2) Enraged that this had happened when casting had barely commenced, the director shut down the movie unilaterally (perhaps finally ...) and sued Gawker .
(3) The prime minister, with her acute sensitivity and loyalty to Tory-inclined social groups, believed, probably with good reason, that a giveaway would enrage homeowners who had painstakingly saved for deposits and paid off mortgages.
(4) The government further enraged Mubarak's opponents when it tried to cover up the killing by alleging he choked on a bag of drugs.
(5) The new video, posted on Wednesday night , has only further enraged tribal leaders who recently called on law enforcement officials to protect native cultural resources at the refuge and to criminally prosecute the militiamen.
(6) The Greece midfielder Giannis Maniatis was so enraged after a training ground spat that he booked a himself on a flight back to Athens before being persuaded not to walk out on Fernando Santos’s squad.
(7) The test comes less than two months after the North enraged the US and its allies by test firing a long-range ballistic missile.
(8) He frequently used the sounds and rhythms of dubstep – which by 2011 was nearing the peak of its explosive global rise – royally enraging the scene's purists, who were already struggling to cope with "their" sound spilling into the mainstream and picked him as scapegoat.
(9) Death of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor likely to enrage Pakistan Read more The US secretary of state, John Kerry, speaking in Myanmar on Sunday, said Mansoor “posed a continuing imminent threat to US personnel in Afghanistan , Afghan civilians, Afghan security forces” and members of the US and Nato coalition.
(10) Tony Blair's effortless ability to enrage his many critics, especially on the left, was evident again when he popped up on BBC Radio 4's Today programme to insist that MPs' rejection of military action against Syria was not directly linked to the legacy of mistrust he bequeathed over the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
(11) The official version that the Ayotzinapa students were executed, burned in a landfill near Cocula and their ashes thrown to the winds has enraged people still more.
(12) The objections are likely to further enrage the Bush administration, which responded with fury to a comment by Mr Straw on Friday that the "axis of evil" speech was more of a vote-winning tactic in forthcoming US elections than a military strategy.
(13) The decision to turn a distant duke into a knight downunder suggests a prime minister who is tone deaf or worse, complacent in his power to push through a personal preference indifferent to the fact that it is bound to enrage and bewilder many.” Devine said it was Credlin’s job to stop her boss making such a blunder and suggested it was time to replace her with the Australian’s own associate editor Chris Kenny.
(14) (In fact, Vicky got it from all directions: a cartoon for Beaverbrook's Evening Standard in the 1950s calling for the abolition of the death penalty so enraged a doctor in Harrow that he wrote to the paper lamenting the fact that Vicky and his family managed to escape from Nazi Germany 25 years earlier.)
(15) Videla did his best to sink into quiet obscurity, leading an austere existence marred only by occasional outbursts against him by enraged passersby who recognised him in the street.
(16) Whatever money is needed for it will be spent,” declared British prime minister David Cameron – Mr Austerity himself – when large parts of the UK were underwater from historic flooding in February 2014 and the public was enraged that his government was not doing more to help.
(17) Palestinians were enraged by footage showing the wounded Ahmed lying on the ground after the attack, as bystanders yell at him: “Die!”.
(18) In his interview, his father told the Guardian: “I don’t know if he had any connections to Isis.” Seddique Mateen also played down the significance of his widely reported remarks in a previous interview in which he recounted how his son had once become enraged at the sight of two men kissing.
(19) Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian Enraged by the revelations of Libor-rigging by some RBS traders?
(20) This awkward fact seems to enrage Trump, the Saudis and Isis in equal measure.
(v. t.) To render furious; to enrage; to exasperate.
Example Sentences:
(1) To be sure, when Russia withdrew Cuba's only deterrent against ongoing US attack with a severe threat to proceed to direct invasion and quietly departed from the scene, the Cubans would be infuriated – as they were, understandably.
(2) This is where he would infuriate the neighbours by kicking the football over his house into their garden; this is Old Street, where his friends would wait in their car to whisk him off to basketball without his parents knowing; Pragel Street, where physiotherapists spotted him being wheeled in a Tesco shopping trolley by friends and suggested he took up basketball; the Housing Options Centre, where he sent a letter forged in his father's name saying he had thrown 16-year-old Ade out and he needed social housing.
(3) In remarks that will infuriate some in the parliamentary Labour party, she said: "There are several of us that think going back to the 19th century working hours would be a disaster."
(4) Scores of Jordanians, infuriated by Kasasbeh’s killing, gathered at midnight in a main square in Amman calling for revenge and her quick execution.
(5) However, the match would end 2-2 thanks to a last-gasp Leonardo Ulloa penalty awarded after Jeffrey Schlupp went down under pressure from Carroll – something which infuriated the Hammers striker.
(6) He alienated and infuriated his athletes in equal measure.
(7) Karzai infuriated both Musharraf and Ashfaq Kayani, his successor as army chief, by spurning offers to help train Afghanistan’s embryonic army.
(8) The others are either infuriatingly vague (“An NHS with time to care”) or pointlessly catch-all (“A country where the next generation can do better than the last”).
(9) Jack Wilshere has sought to highlight his professionalism by posting a video of himself working hard in training, after becoming embroiled in his latest smoking controversy – an indiscretion that has infuriated the Arsenal manager, Arsène Wenger .
(10) Let them wallow in the content that Bolt provides them, carefully calibrated to both infuriate Australia’s dwindling bigoted minority while reassuring them.
(11) The exchanges, first revealed by the Independent, are likely to infuriate junior doctors still further ahead of the first in a series of planned strikes next week over changes to their contracts.
(12) It is still within living memory that the shadow cabinet was once decided by vote of the PLP, a system that infuriated generations of leaders who were forced to accommodate views not their own.
(13) His habit of refusing to budge until he felt a song was absolutely right infuriated some, but guaranteed that he rarely turned in disappointing work.
(14) This response only served to infuriate Clooney further.
(15) Over a series of tweets, Fabricant attempted to make amends for the Alibhai-Brown comments, telling Alibhai-Brown she was "utterly infuriating" but he would not have actually punched her.
(16) I do not make the point in order to infuriate the men and women who still suffer from Aldermaston corns, but to establish that I was once the fiercest of what they called "nuclear warriors".
(17) But what will infuriate many on the left is that he pins as much blame on the welfare state set up by "a middle-class elite partly to relieve poverty but also to deprive the poor of their habits of autonomous organisation".
(18) Good news if you are off on holiday, infuriating if you are still waiting for your passport June 13, 2014 Shaun Richards (@notayesmansecon) Bank of England Forward Guidance adds to "certainty" by telling you that Base Rates can go down,stay the same or go up!
(19) He attended a meeting organised by the rightwing Centre for Policy Studies and became infuriated as people discussed the problems on urban estates.
(20) This last claim particularly infuriates researchers.