enrage
Verb
Verb Forms: enraged, enraging, enrages
- To make very angry; to fill with rage.
- put into a rage; make violently angry
- To become angry or wild.
- To fill with rage; to outrage; to provoke to frenzy; to make furious.
- To provoke to madness, to make insane.
Examples
- His opponent’s triple-word score, using all seven tiles, was enough to enrage even the calmest player.
Origin / Etymology
From Old French enrager, enragier, from rage. Equivalent to en- + rage.
Synonyms
affront, aggravate, anger, antagonize, awrath, burn up, cheese off, cross, embitter, envenom, gall, get, get one's back up, get someone's Irish up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get to, honk off, incense, inflame, infuriate, madden, make angry, make someone see red, make someone's blood boil, nark, offend, outrage, piss off, provoke, put out, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, raise someone's shag, rankle, rattle someone's cage, rile, roil, rub the wrong way, ruffle some feathers, set off, set up someone's birse, steam, tick off
Antonyms
allay, appease, assuage, beguile, bewitch, calm, captivate, charm, comfort, conciliate, console, defuse, disarm, enchant, lull, mollify, pacify, placate, quiet, relieve, settle, soothe
Scrabble Score: 7
enrage: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordenrage: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
enrage: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary