infuriate
verb🔊/ɪnˈfjʊərieɪt/
🔊/ɪnˈfjʊrieɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they infuriate | 🔊/ɪnˈfjʊərieɪt/ 🔊/ɪnˈfjʊrieɪt/ |
| he / she / it infuriates | 🔊/ɪnˈfjʊərieɪts/ 🔊/ɪnˈfjʊrieɪts/ |
| past simple infuriated | 🔊/ɪnˈfjʊərieɪtɪd/ 🔊/ɪnˈfjʊrieɪtɪd/ |
| past participle infuriated | 🔊/ɪnˈfjʊərieɪtɪd/ 🔊/ɪnˈfjʊrieɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form infuriating | 🔊/ɪnˈfjʊərieɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ɪnˈfjʊrieɪtɪŋ/ |
to make somebody extremely angry 使极为生气；使大怒；激怒 - infuriate somebody
Her silence infuriated him even more. 她的沉默使他更加愤怒了。 🔊🔊 Are you doing this on purpose just to infuriate me? 您是故意这样做是为了激怒我吗？ - it infuriates somebody that…/to do something
It infuriates me that she was not found guilty. 令我大怒的是她获判无罪。 🔊🔊
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin infuriat- ‘made angry’, from the verb infuriare, from in- ‘into’ + Latin furia ‘fury’.- infuriate somebody