ENRAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enrage mean? 

• ENRAGE (verb)
  The verb ENRAGE has 1 sense:

1. put into a rage; make violently angry

  Familiarity information: ENRAGE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENRAGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they enrage    ... he / she / it enrages   
Past simple: enraged   
Past participle: enraged   
-ing form: enraging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put into a rage; make violently angry

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "enrage" is one way to...):

anger (make angry)

Cause:

rage (feel intense anger)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

Sam cannot enrage Sue
The performance is likely to enrage Sue

Derivation:

enragement (a feeling of intense anger)

 Context examples 

I needed but the sound of his voice to be so madly enraged as I never was before, and never have been since.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The horrible scene of the preceding day was for ever acting before my eyes; the females were flying and the enraged Felix tearing me from his father’s feet.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She followed him with her eyes, envied everyone to whom he spoke, had scarcely patience enough to help anybody to coffee; and then was enraged against herself for being so silly!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

We are exceptionally well informed, Summerlee, as to the habits of the enraged pterodactyl.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Enraged with almost everybody in the world but himself, he set out the next day for the abbey, where his performances have been seen.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I heard a click of steel and a bellow like an enraged bull.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They began to talk; their conversation eased me completely: frivolous, mercenary, heartless, and senseless, it was rather calculated to weary than enrage a listener.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mrs. Jennings, with a very intelligent Ah! poor dear, immediately gave her her salts; and Sir John felt so desperately enraged against the author of this nervous distress, that he instantly changed his seat to one close by Lucy Steele, and gave her, in a whisper, a brief account of the whole shocking affair.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But the dwarf was enraged at his behaviour, and laid a fairy spell of ill-luck upon him; so that as he rode on the mountain pass became narrower and narrower, and at last the way was so straitened that he could not go to step forward: and when he thought to have turned his horse round and go back the way he came, he heard a loud laugh ringing round him, and found that the path was closed behind him, so that he was shut in all round.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The government of France were greatly enraged at the escape of their victim and spared no pains to detect and punish his deliverer.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)