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Instigate vs Infuriate - What's the difference?

instigate | infuriate |

As verbs the difference between instigate and infuriate

is that instigate is to goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite while infuriate is to make furious or mad with anger; to enrage.

As an adjective infuriate is

enraged, furious.

instigate

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

(instigat)
  • To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite.
    • He hath only instigated his blackest agents to the very extent of their malignity. -Bp. Warburton.

    Usage notes

    Commonly used with reference to evil actions; as, to instigate one to a crime.

    Synonyms

    * (to goad or urge forward): animate, encourage, impel, incite, provoke, spur, stimulate, tempt, urge

    Antonyms

    * (to goad or urge forward): halt, prevent, stop

    Derived terms

    * instigation * instigator

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    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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