enrage
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See also: enragé
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French enrager, enragier, from rage. Equivalent to en- + rage.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɪnˈɹeɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Verb
[edit]enrage (third-person singular simple present enrages, present participle enraging, simple past and past participle enraged)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To become angry or wild. [16th–18th c.]
- (transitive) To fill with rage; to outrage; to provoke to frenzy; to make furious.
- (transitive, obsolete) To provoke to madness, to make insane.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 142, column 2:
- La[dy Macbeth]. I pray you ſpeake not: he growes worſe & worſe
Queſtion enrages him: at once, goodnight. […]
Len[nox]. Good night, and better health
Attend his Maieſty.
Synonyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:enrage
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to fill with rage
References
[edit]- James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Enrage”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 197, column 2.
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[edit]French
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[edit]Verb
[edit]enrage
- inflection of enrager:
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