enrage

They tie up resources, enrage and distract elected officials, demoralize workers who are struggling to restore roads, electricity and water, and, inevitably, invite threats of violence.

If Johnson passes spending legislation with Democratic support, however, he will enrage the same hard-line conservatives who already wrenched the gavel away from Kevin McCarthy, the last speaker who disappointed them.

Above all, it can be read as a signal that, having won most of its big-ticket conservative wish-list cases during Biden’s first term in office, the majority would prefer not to enrage the general public any further than it already has, especially in an election year.

Such steps are likely to further enrage North Korea.

The suspension allows South Korea to restart live-firing exercises and anti-Pyongyang propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts at border areas, actions that are certain to enrage North Korea and prompt it to launch its own military steps.