as in angry
feeling or showing anger
the repair shop owner tore up the bill when he saw the enraged look on the customer's face
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as in infuriated
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 enraged
Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
And that has enraged the country.
—NBC News, 13 Oct. 2024
Beijing was enraged by Australia’s crackdown on Chinese foreign influence operations, the decision to block tech giant Huawei from running Australia’s 5G network, and a call for an investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune Asia, 10 Oct. 2024
Chinatown residents are enraged after fire leaves 50 homeless.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
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Others enraged by Bobba’s comments targeted the founders online — a response Liu has since condemned.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
And that has enraged the country.
—NBC News, 13 Oct. 2024
Beijing was enraged by Australia’s crackdown on Chinese foreign influence operations, the decision to block tech giant Huawei from running Australia’s 5G network, and a call for an investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune Asia, 10 Oct. 2024
Chinatown residents are enraged after fire leaves 50 homeless.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enraged
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Hezbollah’s reputation in the country has suffered; many Lebanese, including the militia’s Shiite supporters, are angry at the scale of destruction of a war that many saw as unnecessary.Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2024
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Yet just a season ago the Galaxy’s main supporters’ groups were boycotting home games, angry over the team’s lack of direction and its dysfunctional front office.Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
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The trip to Moscow angered EU and NATO leaders, and Jens Stoltenberg, then the secretary general of the transatlantic defense alliance, said Orbán's visit did not represent the bloc or its Ukraine policies.Ibrahim Aksoy, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2024
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China’s military exercises around Taiwan, a democracy of 23 million people, have become increasingly frequent in recent years and have tended to coincide with events that have angered Beijing.Wayne Chang, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024
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Many Disney employees were outraged by the bill, and because the company’s largest theme park is based in the state, there was massive internal pressure on then-CEO Bob Chapek to speak out against it.Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
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Vance is equally fluent in the language of the national élite, and therefore knows how to get the national media to cover his crazy theories, and how to get national people outraged by them.David Fontana, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
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Lucas was shocked and hurt that his generous offers kept being rebuffed; the people who organized against him were indignant that a billionaire could be so cavalier about their public land.Elizabeth Blackwell, Longreads, 14 Nov. 2024
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Asked by The Times in 2011 to compare himself to Kanye West (now known as Ye), Jones seemed indignant.Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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An engineer at the company, Charlie Ward, was annoyed with Amazon’s Super Saving Shipping service, which offered customers free shipping if their order was $25 or more.Brian Solis, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
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Someone eating off my plate definitely annoyed me in most situations, but this felt different.Jodie Platt, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
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Bears takeaways Ask Alan Shearer: Live Q&A on Slot's Liverpool, Newcastle, Palmer and much more How Lukas Reichel got his groove back The first CFP rankings deliver surprises: Teams most likely to be elated or furious The Pulse: How do the Chiefs keep doing this?New York Times, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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In the last 24 hours, at least one editor has resigned, and high-profile Post staffers have publicly expressed their dismay as many in the paper’s Opinion section are furious over how the situation was handled.Hadas Gold, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
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The sight of a covey of desert quail fills me with a mad, superhuman strength.Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life, 6 Nov. 2024
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Then, like clockwork, a bunch of Democrats got mad.Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
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He was dressed in full black and wore a gas mask and ballistic helmet over his face and head in addition to a bullet-resistant vest, leggings, throat protector, groin protector and tactical gloves.Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
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Recently, researchers blew this ballistic mystery wide open.Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
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