Thesaurus:enrage
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]Sense: to evoke extreme anger in a person (or animal)
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- affront
- aggravate [⇒ thesaurus]
- anger [⇒ thesaurus]
- antagonize
- awrath
- burn up
- cheese off (slang)
- cross
- embitter
- envenom
- gall
- get
- get to
- honk off
- incense
- inflame
- infuriate
- madden
- make angry
- nark (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang)
- offend [⇒ thesaurus]
- outrage
- provoke
- put out
- rankle
- rile
- piss off
- roil
- set off
- steam
- tick off [⇒ thesaurus]
- —
- get one's back up
- get someone's dander up
- get someone's goat
- get someone's Irish up (racist)
- make someone see red
- make someone's blood boil
- put someone's back up
- raise someone's hackles
- raise someone's shag
- rattle someone's cage
- rub the wrong way
- ruffle some feathers
- set up someone's birse (Scotland)
Antonyms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]See also
[edit]- anger [⇒ thesaurus]
- angry [⇒ thesaurus]
- annoy [⇒ thesaurus]
- annoyed [⇒ thesaurus]
- offend [⇒ thesaurus]
Further reading
[edit]- “900. resentment” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “835. aggravation” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “enrage” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.