incense
/ˈɪnsɛn(t)s/ verb C2- To anger; to infuriate. · I think it would incense him to learn the truth.
- To offer incense to.
- To perfume with, or as with, incense.
He/she/it incenses · Past incensed · Past participle incensed · -ing form incensing
Verb forms
- Base form
- incense
- He/she/it
- incenses
- Past
- incensed
- Past participle
- incensed
- -ing form
- incensing
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Day after day passed away without bringing any other tidings of him than the report which shortly prevailed in Meryton of his coming no more to Netherfield the whole winter; a report which highly incensed Mrs.
Her Ladyship was highly incensed.
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