infurare

Infurare is an Italian verb meaning to infuriate or to enrage someone, resulting in strong anger or indignation. It is a transitive verb and is often used in contexts where a specific action, statement, or event provokes intense fury in another person or group. The reflexive form infurarsi means to become infuriated oneself.

Etymology and related forms: infurare derives from the Latin furor, meaning fury or madness, with the prefix in- intensifying the sense. The related reflexive verb infurarsi expresses the subject’s own anger, while infurare typically describes causing anger in others.

Usage: In contemporary Italian, infurare appears in formal or literary registers; in everyday speech, speakers more commonly use infuriarsi to describe one’s own anger or synonyms such as arrabiare or indignare. The construction usually involves a direct object representing the person or group affected: for example, La decisione ha infuriato molti cittadini (The decision infuriated many citizens). The nuance of infurare conveys a stronger, more explosive anger than simply “to anger” or “to annoy.”

See also: furor, arrabbiare, infuriarsi, Italian verbs.