infuriate

Etymology

From Medieval Latin infuriatus (“enraged”), past participle of infurio (“to enrage”), from Latin furia (“rage, fury, frenzy”), perhaps via Italian infuriato.

verb

1. To make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.
   What graceles fears, strange hates, may Nations so affright, Infuriate so; gainst God with mad attempts to fight? 1615, Edwin Sandys, “Psalm 2”, in Sacred Hymns, Consisting of fifti select psalms of David and others, paraphrastically turned into English verse, London, page 2
   1796, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Prospect of a Regicide Peace, London: J. Owen, Letter 2, p. 105, They tore the deputation of the Clergy to pieces by their infuriated declamations and invectives, before they lacerated their bodies by their massacres.
   I had […] no notion that the working class were human beings.[…] I could agonise over their sufferings, but I still hated them and despised them when I came anywhere near them. I was still revolted by their accents and infuriated by their habitual rudeness. 1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, Penguin, published 1962, Part 2, Chapter 9, p. 131
   US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has left Taiwan after a one-day visit that has infuriated China. 03 August 2022, Zaheena Rasheed, “Pelosi in Taiwan live news: Tsai slams ‘unnecessary’ China drills”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 2022-08-03

adj

1. (now rare) Filled with, characterized by or expressing fury.
   With an infuriate scream the dead awakened. 1929, Thomas Wolfe, chapter 20, in Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Modern Library, page 280
   Until Peyton was born, bleak doubt assailed him. He looked at his wife’s body with suspicion and his own with infuriate guilt. 1951, William Styron, chapter 2, in Lie Down in Darkness, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 51