英语词汇“incense”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

incense1

/ˈɪnsɛns

noun [mass noun]

1A gum, spice, or other substance that is burned for the sweet smell it produces: the sharp lingering sweetness of incense [as modifier]: incense sticks...

Instead, they burn incense and other sweet odors and light candles.
You could burn incense sticks or light a scented candle.
She always had some sandalwood incense burning when she sang, or wrote.

Synonyms

perfume, fragrance, scent;

aroma, bouquet, redolence, balm

1.1The smoke or perfume of incense: the swirls of incense in the air...

The room was lit almost completely by soft candlelight, and the air was perfumed by sweet-smelling incense, and men smoking pipes filled with herbal concoctions.
All you see is the mist of thick and perfumed incense.
The air eddies with charcoal smoke and incense.

verb [with object]

Perfume with incense or a similar fragrance: the aroma of cannabis incensed the air

Derivatives

incensation

/ɪnsɛnˈseɪʃ(ə)n/ noun

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'.

incense2

/ɪnˈsɛns

verb [with object]

Make very angry: locals are incensed at the suggestion...

Locals from Mountmellick are incensed by the amount of household rubbish that is being illegally dumped in areas of the town.
A local woman was incensed and began a local petition to campaign to make the council change its mind.
The locals were incensed and came out of their homes to argue with the British soldiers.

Synonyms

enrage, infuriate, anger, madden, send into a rage, outrage, inflame, exasperate, antagonize, provoke, irritate greatly, rile, gall

informal 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, get up someone's nose, rattle someone's cage

British informal wind up, get on someone's wick, nark

North American informal burn up, tick off, gravel

vulgar slang piss off

British vulgar slang get on someone's tits

rare empurple

enraged, very angry, irate, furious, infuriated, angered, in a temper, raging, incandescent, fuming, seething, beside oneself, outraged, in high dudgeon

informal mad, hopping mad, wild, livid, as cross as two sticks, 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 paddy, in a filthy temper, fit to be tied

British informal shirty, stroppy

North American informal sore, bent out of shape, soreheaded, ticked off

Australian/New Zealand informal ropeable, snaky, crook

West Indian informal vex

British informal, dated in a bate, waxy

vulgar slang pissed off

North American vulgar slang pissed

literary wrathful, ireful, wroth

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'.

单词	incense
释义	incense1 /ˈɪnsɛns / noun [mass noun] 1A gum, spice, or other substance that is burned for the sweet smell it produces: the sharp lingering sweetness of incense [as modifier]: incense sticks... Instead, they burn incense and other sweet odors and light candles. You could burn incense sticks or light a scented candle. She always had some sandalwood incense burning when she sang, or wrote. Synonyms perfume, fragrance, scent; aroma, bouquet, redolence, balm 1.1The smoke or perfume of incense: the swirls of incense in the air... The room was lit almost completely by soft candlelight, and the air was perfumed by sweet-smelling incense, and men smoking pipes filled with herbal concoctions. All you see is the mist of thick and perfumed incense. The air eddies with charcoal smoke and incense. verb [with object] Perfume with incense or a similar fragrance: the aroma of cannabis incensed the air Derivatives incensation /ɪnsɛnˈseɪʃ(ə)n/ noun 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'. incense2 /ɪnˈsɛns / verb [with object] Make very angry: locals are incensed at the suggestion... Locals from Mountmellick are incensed by the amount of household rubbish that is being illegally dumped in areas of the town. A local woman was incensed and began a local petition to campaign to make the council change its mind. The locals were incensed and came out of their homes to argue with the British soldiers. Synonyms enrage, infuriate, anger, madden, send into a rage, outrage, inflame, exasperate, antagonize, provoke, irritate greatly, rile, gall informal 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, get up someone's nose, rattle someone's cage British informal wind up, get on someone's wick, nark North American informal burn up, tick off, gravel vulgar slang piss off British vulgar slang get on someone's tits rare empurple enraged, very angry, irate, furious, infuriated, angered, in a temper, raging, incandescent, fuming, seething, beside oneself, outraged, in high dudgeon informal mad, hopping mad, wild, livid, as cross as two sticks, 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 paddy, in a filthy temper, fit to be tied British informal shirty, stroppy North American informal sore, bent out of shape, soreheaded, ticked off Australian/New Zealand informal ropeable, snaky, crook West Indian informal vex British informal, dated in a bate, waxy vulgar slang pissed off North American vulgar slang pissed literary wrathful, ireful, wroth 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'.
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