enfrenzyv.
/ɛnˈfrɛnzi/ transitive. To throw into a frenzy. In quot. absol.
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the mind > emotion > violent emotion > cause emotion to be violent [verb (transitive)] > affect with violent emotion
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a1656 Bp. J. Hall St. Paul's Combat (R.) His tooth like a mad dog's envenomes and emphrensies.
Derivatives
enˈfrenzied adj.
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the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [adjective] > affected by violent emotion
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1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 13 327 Blanch..enfrenzied shrieks.
a1845 R. H. Barham Jerry Jarvis's Wig in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 314 With an enfrenzied grasp.
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