incensed
adjective
[ ɪnˈsɛnst ]
• very angry; enraged.
• "Leonora glared back at him, incensed"
incense
verb
• perfume with incense or a similar fragrance.
• "the aroma of cannabis incensed the air"
Origin:
Middle English (originally as encense ): from Old French encens (noun), encenser (verb), from ecclesiastical Latin incensum ‘something burnt, incense’, neuter past participle of incendere ‘set fire to’, from in- ‘in’ + the base of candere ‘to glow’.
incense
verb
• make very angry.
• "locals are incensed at the suggestion"
Similar:
enrage,
infuriate,
anger,
madden,
send into a rage,
outrage,
inflame,
exasperate,
antagonize,
provoke,
irritate greatly,
rile,
gall,
make someone see red,
make someone's blood boil,
make someone's hackles rise,
get someone's back up,
hack off,
drive mad/crazy,
drive up the wall,
get someone's dander up,
get someone's goat,
rattle someone's cage,
wind up,
get on someone's wick,
nark,
get up someone's nose,
burn up,
tick off,
gravel,
empurple,
enraged,
very angry,
irate,
furious,
infuriated,
angered,
in a temper,
raging,
incandescent,
fuming,
seething,
beside oneself,
outraged,
in high dudgeon,
mad,
hopping mad,
wild,
livid,
boiling,
apoplectic,
aerated,
hot under the collar,
on the warpath,
up in arms,
with all guns blazing,
foaming at the mouth,
steamed up,
in a lather,
in a filthy temper,
fit to be tied,
shirty,
stroppy,
as cross as two sticks,
in a paddy,
sore,
bent out of shape,
soreheaded,
ticked off,
ropeable,
snaky,
crook,
vex,
in a bate,
waxy,
wrathful,
ireful,
wroth,
piss off,
get on someone's tits,
pissed off,
pissed,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the general sense ‘inflame or excite someone with a strong feeling’): from Old French incenser, from Latin incendere ‘set fire to’.
