infuriate
verb /ɪnˈfjʊərɪeɪt 
/ [with object]
/ [with object]Make (someone) extremely angry and impatient: I was infuriated by your article...
- And on the days when I say something that angers and infuriates you, tell me!
- He annoys me and infuriates me but he also kind of intrigues me.
- The article that Dan talks about here just infuriates me.
Synonyms
enrage, incense, anger, madden, inflame, send into a rage, make someone's blood boil, stir up, fire up;
exasperate, antagonize, provoke, rile, make one's hackles rise, annoy, irritate, nettle, gall, get on someone's nerves, rub up the wrong way, ruffle someone's feathers, try someone's patience, irk, vex, pique;
North American rankle, ride
informal aggravate, make one see red, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, peeve, needle, get under someone's skin, get up someone's nose, hack off
British informal wind up, get at, nark, get across, get on someone's wick, brown off, cheese off
North American informal bug, tick off, gravel, bum out
vulgar slang piss off
exasperating, maddening, provoking, annoying, irritating, irksome, vexing, vexatious, trying, tiresome, bothersome
informal aggravating, pesky, cussed, confounded, infernal, pestiferous, plaguy, pestilent
Origin
Mid 17th century: from medieval Latin infuriat- 'made angry', from the verb infuriare, from in- 'into' + Latin furia 'fury'.
Rhymes
- corporate culture
- corporate hospitality
- corporate identity
- corporately
- corporate raider
- corporate state
- corporate welfare
- corporate welfare bum
- corporation
- corporation tax
- corporatise
- corporatism
- corporatist
- corporative
- corporativism
- corporativist
- corporatization
- corporatize
- corporatocracy
- corporator
- corporeal
- corporeality
- corporeally
- corporeity
- corposant