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Incense vs Enrage - What's the difference?

incense | enrage |

As verbs the difference between incense and enrage

is that incense is to anger or infuriate while enrage is to fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.

As a noun incense

is a perfume used in the rites of various religions.

incense

English

Noun

(wikipedia incense)
  • A perfume used in the rites of various religions.
  • Derived terms

    * incense boat * incense cedar

    Verb

  • To anger or infuriate.
  • I think it would incense him to learn the truth.
  • (archaic) To incite, stimulate.
  • To offer incense to.
  • (Chaucer)
  • To perfume with, or as with, incense.
  • * Marston
  • Incensed with wanton sweetes.
  • (obsolete) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.
  • * Chapman
  • Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labour to incense / Thy glorious heap of funeral.

    enrage

    English

    Verb

    (enrag)
  • To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.
  • Synonyms

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