Infuriate vs Arouse - What's the difference?
infuriate | arouse | Related terms |
To make furious or mad with anger; to enrage
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.
* Thomson
To stimulate feelings.
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*:“?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;.”
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To wake from sleep or stupor.
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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
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(en adjective)- (Milton)
- Inflamed beyond the most infuriate wrath.
arouse
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(en-verb)Lord Stranleigh Abroad, passage=She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination.}}