ired

verb

Definition of irednext
past tense of ire
as in infuriated
to make angry nothing ires him more than having to wait for his dinner

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ired
  1. enraged
  2. angered
  3. annoyed
  4. outraged
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  • Others enraged by Bobba’s comments targeted the founders online — a response Liu has since condemned.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
  • And that has enraged the country.
    NBC News, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2024
Definition of enraged
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  • The trip to Moscow angered EU and NATO leaders, and Jens Stoltenberg, then the secretary general of the transatlantic defense alliance, said Orbán's visit did not represent the bloc or its Ukraine policies.
    Ibrahim Aksoy, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2024
  • China’s military exercises around Taiwan, a democracy of 23 million people, have become increasingly frequent in recent years and have tended to coincide with events that have angered Beijing.
    Wayne Chang, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024
Definition of angered
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  • An engineer at the company, Charlie Ward, was annoyed with Amazon’s Super Saving Shipping service, which offered customers free shipping if their order was $25 or more.
    Brian Solis, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Someone eating off my plate definitely annoyed me in most situations, but this felt different.
    Jodie Platt, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of annoyed
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  • Many Disney employees were outraged by the bill, and because the company’s largest theme park is based in the state, there was massive internal pressure on then-CEO Bob Chapek to speak out against it.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Vance is equally fluent in the language of the national élite, and therefore knows how to get the national media to cover his crazy theories, and how to get national people outraged by them.
    David Fontana, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Definition of outraged
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“Ired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ired. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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