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Incensed vs Raging - What's the difference?

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Incensed is a related term of raging.


As adjectives the difference between incensed and raging

is that incensed is enraged]]; [[infuriate|infuriated; spitefully or furiously angry while raging is volatile, very active or unpredictable.

As verbs the difference between incensed and raging

is that incensed is (incense) while raging is .

As a noun raging is

a display of rage.

incensed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Enraged]]; [[infuriate, infuriated; spitefully or furiously angry.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=March 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Ferguson was incensed as referee Martin Atkinson pointed to the spot - and United's sense of injustice deepened when Nemanja Vidic was sent off in stoppage time after receiving a second yellow card for a foul on Ramires, ruling the centre-back out of the visit to Liverpool on Sunday. }}

    Verb

    (head)
  • (incense)

    • raging

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • *
  • *:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging . No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Volatile, very active or unpredictable.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A display of rage.
  • *
    • To quell the ragings of his Father's ire, / And save a guilty world from quenchless fire!