as in infuriating
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as in angering
to make angry
the fact that the auto garage bungled the repair and then overcharged him simply enraged the customer
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Recent Examples of enraging
Benjamin Cannon, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
Paul’s antics are enraging, a bit funny, and a perfect encapsulation of the Chris Paul experience.
—Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2025
Schumer and nine other Senate Democrats voted to keep the government open back then, enraging Democrats who had wanted to use the pressure point to fight back against the administration.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2025
Seattle’s defense has made fans think of the glory days when the Legion of Boom was enraging offenses around the league in the early 2010s.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2025
As part of these reforms, the Royal Navy impounded dozens of merchant vessels for allegedly evading customs duties, enraging merchants as well as mariners, shipwrights, stevedores, and others in port cities whose livelihoods depended on foreign commerce.
—Time, 9 Oct. 2025
The film captures every enraging detail of the trial while using it as a jumping off point for an exploration of the history of the region and the ways in which the Chuchagasta have been bureaucratically erased in order to strip them of their property and rights.
—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
Or enraging if your name is Marco Silva.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
Dougal brought his brother home, enraging Jacob, who couldn’t believe his sons had abandoned the raid.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
Cramped, about living with debilitating period pain, is funny, educational, and at times enraging.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for enraging
Adjective
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An infuriating drama about the indifference of power to the individual, Paths of Glory is both a war movie and a courtroom thriller.—
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Somewhere out there is a woman (possibly a yoga instructor in her 20s from Clapham) who is perfect for this infuriating man child.—
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The board instead approved a resolution to reexamine current campus spaces, angering some parents.—
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Meanwhile another son, Eduardo, lobbied US officials to impose tariffs on Brazil in response to the verdict, angering many back home.—
Adjective
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This made the film upsetting at times; suddenly, the humans dying onscreen began to feel real.—
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But this is upsetting (and frazzling) to me on a deeper level.—
Verb
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Sometimes, rage bait can be relatively harmless – a recipe that contains disgusting food combinations or someone annoying their pet, partner or sibling.—
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But what’s been annoying me even more is that these women should have been trained by producers to start recording on their own cell phones if drama starts to unfold after cameras go down.—
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“Enraging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enraging. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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