Vex vs Enrage - What's the difference?
vex | enrage | Related terms |
To trouble aggressively, to harass.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XII:
To annoy, irritate.
To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
(rare) To twist, to weave.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.
To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
* Alexander Pope
To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.
Vex is a related term of enrage.
As a noun vex
is (space|esa).As a verb enrage is
.As an adjective enrage is
furious, enraged, incensed.vex
English
Verb
(es)- In that tyme Herode the kynge layed hondes on certayne of the congregacion, to vexe them.
- Billy's professor was vexed by his continued failure to improve his grades.
- some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom
- (Chapman)
- White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars.