enrage

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English

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Old French enrager, enragier, from rage. Equivalent to en- +‎ rage.

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enrage (third-person singular simple present enrages, present participle enraging, simple past and past participle enraged)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To become angry or wild. [16th–18th c.]
  2. (transitive) To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy; to make furious.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To provoke to madness, to make insane.
    • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 142, column 2:
      La[dy Macbeth]. I pray you ſpeake not: he growes worſe & worſe
      Queſtion enrages him: at once, goodnight. []
      Len[nox]. Good night, and better health
      Attend his Maieſty.

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enrage

  1. inflection of enrager:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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