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Infuriate vs Arouse - What's the difference?

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Infuriate is a related term of arouse.


As verbs the difference between infuriate and arouse

is that infuriate is to make furious or mad with anger; to enrage while arouse is to stimulate feelings.

As an adjective infuriate

is enraged, furious.

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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    arouse

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To stimulate feelings.
  • :
  • :
  • *
  • *:“?My tastes,” he said, still smiling, “?incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet.” And, to tease her and arouse her to combat?: “?I prefer a farandole to a nocturne?; I'd rather have a painting than an etching?; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;.”
  • *{{quote-book, year=1913, author=
  • , chapter=5, title= Lord Stranleigh Abroad , passage=She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination.}}
  • To sexually stimulate.
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  • To wake from sleep or stupor.
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  • See also

    * arousal * aroused

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