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Incense vs Exasperate - What's the difference?

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In obsolete terms the difference between incense and exasperate

is that incense is to set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn while exasperate is exasperated; embittered.

As verbs the difference between incense and exasperate

is that incense is to anger or infuriate while exasperate is to frustrate, vex, provoke, or annoy; to make angry.

As a noun incense

is a perfume used in the rites of various religions.

As an adjective exasperate is

exasperated; embittered.

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.

    exasperate

    English

    Verb

    (exasperat)
  • To frustrate, vex, provoke, or annoy; to make angry.
  • * , Macbeth , act 3, sc. 6:
    • this report
    Hath so exasperate the king that he
    Prepares for some attempt of war.
  • * 1851 , , Moby Dick , ch. 3:
    • The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.
  • * 1853 , , Bleak House , ch. 11:
    • Beadle goes into various shops and parlours, examining the inhabitants; always shutting the door first, and by exclusion, delay, and general idiotcy, exasperating the public.
  • * 1987 , " Woman of the Year: Corazon Aquino," Time , 5 Jan:
    • [S]he exasperates her security men by acting as if she were protected by some invisible shield.
  • * 2007 , " Loyal Mail," Times Online (UK), 4 June (retrieved 7 Oct 2010):
    • News that Adam Crozier, Royal Mail chief executive, is set to receive a bumper bonus will exasperate postal workers.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Exasperated; embittered.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * Elizabeth Browning
    • Like swallows which the exasperate dying year / Sets spinning.

    See also

    * exacerbate ----