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Infuriate vs Incense - What's the difference?

infuriate | incense |

As verbs the difference between infuriate and incense

is that infuriate is to make furious or mad with anger; to enrage while incense is to anger or infuriate.

As an adjective infuriate

is enraged, furious.

As a noun incense is

a perfume used in the rites of various religions.

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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    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.