(v. t.) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.
(v. t.) To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.
(n.) To offer incense to. See Incense.
(n.) To perfume with, or as with, incense.
(n.) The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity.
(n.) The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc.
(n.) Also used figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Liverpool manager was incensed by Lee Mason's performance at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, when a 2-1 defeat cost his team the Premier League leadership and Raheem Sterling had a first half goal disallowed for an incorrect offside call.
(2) Brown’s parents were incensed, accusing Jackson of mounting a smear campaign.
(3) He’s not the first Tory MP to speak out about the problem of housing yourself while rich: Johnny Mercer told the Telegraph that he was so incensed by the cost of London property that he brought his family boat up from the south coast, moored it in east London, and stays there several nights a week.
(4) That displaced machinists on the banks of Lake Erie were so incensed by the Podesta emails that they voted for Trump instead of Clinton?
(5) Sir Roger Gale, Conservative MP for North Thanet in Kent, whose constituents include Hermitage and Middleton, has lobbied successive Foreign Office ministers for Africa over the years and is incensed that the British government is encouraging British companies to invest in Tanzania despite what happened at Silverdale.
(6) It was therefore attempted to combat the hospital infections by all means with desodorizing procedures, thus trying primarily to suppress the stench by frequent whitewashing of the rooms, spraying of vinegar, by burning powder and even using precious incense.
(7) Incensed by Sánchez, he went to remonstrate with Dean.
(8) I still don’t know if my brother is alive.” He said he was incensed by the intrusion.
(9) Ghani’s predecessor, Hamid Karzai, incensed the Obama administration by refusing to sign the basing deal, rebuking the country that installed him as Afghanistan’s leader after the US drove the Taliban from Kabul in 2001.
(10) The only souls around are a small group of Buddhist pilgrims, lighting incense at the rear of the spectacular Khmer temple.
(11) Hugh Morgan Williams, chairman of North East Access to Finance, was incensed.
(12) At the time, the sonic experimentation didn’t just divide opinion, it incensed some people.
(13) Incense Bata túise Lipstick Béaldath Shut your mouth!
(14) Comparisons with a year ago – when the bank incensed politicians by announcing £39.5m of bonuses on budget day – are difficult, as the composition of the management team has changed dramatically and the share price has fallen from 308p to 232p.
(15) MQM officials were incensed at the death of party activist Waqas Ali Shah, who was shot dead during the raid, although the Rangers denied they were responsible for firing the bullet that killed him.
(16) Mourinho was incensed that Clattenburg did not award his team a penalty and show a red card to Claudio Bravo after Manchester City’s new goalkeeper, at fault for Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s goal, dived into a challenge on Wayne Rooney 11 minutes into the second half.
(17) While contact was made, Mourinho was incensed on the bench and strode down the touchline to berate the visiting striker as he complained to the officials.
(18) By nightfall, an incensed Lisa told an officer at a nearby police station that she intended to file a missing persons report, and said “the media is gonna be in here” unless Stephanie was freed within a half an hour.
(19) Fusillades of incensed Times columnists from Finkelstein to Parris have the freedom to write what they believe.
(20) Dershowitz, who spoke to Epstein over the weekend, said the multi-millionaire was incensed by the the Florida court motion.
(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.