Thesaurus:enrage

Thesaurus

enrage

English

Verb

Sense: to evoke extreme anger in a person (or animal)

Synonyms

• affront
• aggravate    [⇒ thesaurus]
• anger    [⇒ thesaurus]
• antagonize
• awrath
• cheese off (slang)
• cross
• embitter
• envenom
• gall
• get
• get to
• honk off
• incense
• inflame
• infuriate
• madden
• make angry
• nark (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang)
• offend    [⇒ thesaurus]
• outrage
• provoke
• put out
• rankle
• rile
• piss off
• roil
• steam
• tick off    [⇒ thesaurus]
•   —
• get one's back up
• get someone's dander up
• get someone's goat
• get someone's Irish up (racist)
• make someone see red
• make someone's blood boil
• put someone's back up
• raise someone's hackles
• raise someone's shag
• rattle someone's cage
• rub the wrong way
• ruffle some feathers
• set up someone's birse (Scotland)

Antonyms

• allay
• appease
• assuage
• beguile
• bewitch
• calm    [⇒ thesaurus]
• captivate
• charm
• comfort    [⇒ thesaurus]
• conciliate
• console
• defuse
• disarm
• enchant
• lull
• mollify
• pacify    [⇒ thesaurus]
• placate
• quiet    [⇒ thesaurus]
• relieve
• settle
• soothe

Hypernyms

• incite    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• anger    [⇒ thesaurus]
• angry    [⇒ thesaurus]
• annoy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• annoyed    [⇒ thesaurus]
• offend    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “900. resentment” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “835. aggravation” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “enrage” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.