What's the difference between incensed and irate?

Incensed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Incense
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Incense
  • (a.) Angered; enraged.
  • (a.) Represented as enraged, as any wild creature depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes.

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.

Irate


Definition:

  • (a.) Angry; incensed; enraged.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) High among the range of issues was the media dominance of the Globo group (whose journalists were chased away from demonstrations by an irate mob), inefficient use of public funds, forced relocations linked to Olympic real estate developments, the treatment of indigenous groups, dire inequality and excessive use of force by police in favela communities.
  • (2) A retired man became irate as he detailed why he couldn’t stand her: her handling of the attack against the US consulate in Benghazi , her email scandal , her cosy ties to Wall Street.
  • (3) The station nearest the Itaquerão stadium that will host the World Cup's opening match on 12 June was damaged by irate commuters who kicked down the metal barriers at two entrances.
  • (4) With European taxpayers already irate that Greece will need yet more funds to keep afloat, the €130bn financial support load had previously been seen as a red line across which no EU government was willing to step.
  • (5) While the Andersons appeared to be coming around to a brokered surrender, Fry became increasingly irate, refusing to quiet down when the other occupiers said they couldn’t hear Fiore and Seim on the other end of the call.
  • (6) At his afternoon event, all is ambivalence: he's received as a hero, but then spends a good deal of his allotted hour taking questions – and mini-speeches – from irate members of the audience.
  • (7) "You can't transform sports without targets," he said, qualifying this by adding that South Africa would not be like Kenya and send swimmers to the Olympics to "drown in the pool" – provoking a Twitter backlash from irate Kenyans under #SomeoneTellSouthAfrica .
  • (8) Irate trade unionists took over Athens' ancient landmark as fury over an unprecedented package of austerity measures, agreed in return for a multibillion euro aid package from eurozone nations and the IMF, intensified.
  • (9) Tempers have flared elsewhere across the country as irate voters have disrupted public meetings held by Democratic members of Congress.
  • (10) Irecently read a post on a Swedish parenting website from an irate mother complaining that, when she took her young son to see a children's film, an ad was shown featuring a gay couple telling each other: "I love you."
  • (11) Increased irAT levels heralded rejection of the pancreatic allograft by 4 to 30 days (median 20 days) in 13 of the 16 rejecting animals (80%).
  • (12) Both acylation and deacylation are rate-determining for these substrates, while only deacylation irate-determining for methyl-N-acetyl-L-phenylalanylglycinate.
  • (13) An irate Murdoch began inundating Wolff with increasingly urgent messages on his voicemail, saying he had read four of the 17 chapters and had "grave concerns about the facts".
  • (14) My abiding memory of him will be him being taken to task by two irate locals about the state of the town centre, and David winning them over."
  • (15) Those irate British nimbys, along with the green groups who want to leave fossil fuels in the ground, are quite capable of making life miserable for the shale prospectors.
  • (16) The same gift of the gab that a good hotel manager deploys to schmooze an irate guest complaining about draughts made the difference between life and death; he cajoled and coaxed, flattered and deceived, lied and bribed.
  • (17) No advantage was seen in the determination of urinary IRI when compared to determination of urinary irAT.
  • (18) This decline was seen after the increase in serum irAT.
  • (19) The article also offers suggestions on dealing with the irate or frightened parent.
  • (20) Graft pancreatitis and allograft rejection were both accompanied by increased serum levels of immunoreactive anionic trypsin (irAT) in a porcine pancreatic allograft transplantation model.