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Endanger vs Infuriate - What's the difference?

endanger | infuriate |

As verbs the difference between endanger and infuriate

is that endanger is to put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to while infuriate is to make furious or mad with anger; to enrage.

As an adjective infuriate is

enraged, furious.

endanger

English

Alternative forms

* endaunger (obsolete) * indanger

Verb

(en verb)
  • To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.
  • * 1593, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona
    • I hold him but a fool that will endanger / His body [in a duel] for a girl that loves him not
  • * Burke
    • All the other difficulties of his reign only exercised without endangering him.
  • * 1877, Louisa May Alcott, Under the Lilacs
    • If you endanger other people's life and liberty in your pursuit of happiness, I shall have to confiscate your arms, boys.
  • (obsolete) To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • He that turneth the humours back endangereth malign ulcers.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    infuriate

    English

    Verb

    (infuriat)
  • To make furious or mad with anger; to enrage

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Enraged, furious.
  • * 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, p. 336:
  • *:‘A'll not leave thee,’ said Weeper in an infuriate rage.
    • (Milton)
  • * Thomson
    • Inflamed beyond the most infuriate wrath.
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