incense

Plural: incenses

Noun

• a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned
• the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned
  • "incense filled the room"
• Biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt, often used in religious rites or for aesthetic reasons.
• The fragrant smoke released by burning incense.
• Homage; adulation.

Verb

Verb Forms: incensed, incensing, incenses

• To make extremely angry; to enrage.
• perfume especially with a censer
• make furious
• To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.
• To anger or infuriate.
• To incite, stimulate.
• To offer incense to.
• To perfume with, or as with, incense.

Examples

• I think it would incense him to learn the truth.
• Playing ’ZAX’ on a triple-word score was guaranteed to incense his opponent.

Synonyms

cense, exasperate, infuriate, thurify, abet, actuate, affront, aggravate, alight, anger, antagonize, aromatize, awrath, bring about, burn up, cheer, cheese off, conflagrate, cross, drive, egg on, embitter, encourage, engender, envenom, evoke, excite, fire, fire up, foment, fume, gall, get, get one's back up, get someone's Irish up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get to, goad, grill, honk off, ignite, impel, incense, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, invoke, kindle, lash, light, light up, madden, make angry, make someone see red, make someone's blood boil, motivate, motive, move, musk, nark, obligate, oblige, odorize, offend, outrage, piss off, promote, prompt, provoke, push, put out, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, raise someone's shag, rankle, rattle someone's cage, rile, roil, rouse, rub the wrong way, ruffle some feathers, scent, send, set ablaze, set afire, set aflame, set alight, set fire, set off, set on fire, set up someone's birse, spark off, spur, spur on, steam, stimulate, sting, stir, stir up, stoke, tempt, tick off, torch, urge, whet, whip up

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