enrage
Example Sentences
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The early morning joggers and the half-asleep students clutching bags of bagels to their chests didn’t so much as give him or the towering, enraged ghost slowly making his way to Boaz a passing glance.
From Literature
A deal between landlocked Ethiopia and Somaliland last year to lease a stretch of coastline for a port and military base enraged Somalia.
From Barron's
That job would be short-lived after he reported Indonesia’s economy was in shambles and the country’s enraged leadership threw him out.
From Los Angeles Times
He defined the domestic cat, for instance, as “a deceitful animal, and when enraged, extremely spiteful.”
When Mr. Sveen says wolves “ruined” 40 lambs in one night, we assume he means they were left dead and uneaten and this enrages him, not unjustifiably.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
