(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.
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.