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incensed
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incensed as in:  incensed by her insult

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    Doubletree Mutt looked into the barn, his big tail waving provocatively, and Jody was so incensed at his health that he found a hard black clod on the floor and deliberately threw it.  (source)
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    My old school was all about cutting ahead and incensing the lunch ladies, but here everyone waits patiently.†  (source)
    incensing = angering
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    He had seen himself, a young and silent-mannered priest, entering a confessional swiftly, ascending the altarsteps, incensing, genuflecting, accomplishing the vague acts of the priesthood which pleased him by reason of their semblance of reality and of their distance from it.†  (source)
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    When we arrived home from the service, Dad was incensed that lunch wasn't ready.†  (source)
    incensed = very angered
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    I gave him soothing herbs, I burned incenses, I called birds to sing at our windows.†  (source)
    incenses = angers
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    At length, after much deliberation, which during that night supplied the place of sleep, he determined to feign himself sick: for this suggested itself as the only means of failing the appointed visit, without incensing Lady Bellaston, which he had more than one reason of desiring to avoid.†  (source)
    incensing = angering
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    A few times, purely to incense Mama a little further, he also brought the instrument to the kitchen and played through breakfast.  (source)
    incense = anger
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    When he shook her she'd close her eyes and go limp, which incensed him further.†  (source)
    incensed = very angered
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    The incenses and perfumes which filled the air were thick and cloying.†  (source)
    incenses = angers
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    —Well, call him hither;—We are reconcil'd, and the first view shall kill All repetition:—let him not ask our pardon; The nature of his great offence is dead, And deeper than oblivion do we bury Th' incensing relics of it; let him approach, A stranger, no offender; and inform him, So 'tis our will he should.†  (source)
    incensing = angering
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    His father laughed, but Claude was incensed.†  (source)
    incensed = very angered
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    Essences of musk and champac, and the bluish haze of burning incenses drifted, soothing his soul, about him.†  (source)
    incenses = angers
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    After a brief struggle, Wes wrestled free and jumped back from his incensed brother.†  (source)
    incensed = very angered
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common meaning

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    Once in a while I've found sticks of incense, and candles too, as if Laura were being invoked.†  (source)
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    We were in Oceanos' hall, the air sickly with incense.†  (source)
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    Then we came home in the middle of the night, still smelling of incense from the church, and drank warm atole de chocolate, and opened our gifts.†  (source)
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    I hid the completed calculations under my pillow, and threw the scratch paper into the incense burner in the yard.†  (source)
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    Up and down the street were entrepreneurial immigrants in colorful clothes—embroidered guayaberas and flowing kente and spray-painted T-shirts—hustling everything from mix tapes to T-shirts to incense from crowded sidewalk tables.†  (source)
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    The abbey smelled like incense and wood.†  (source)
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    And then Pattie lights incense that is in the shape of a triangle and she places it on a red plate.†  (source)
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    I could smell incense, weed, spaghetti sauce cooking.†  (source)
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    It's warm in the church and sweet with flowers and incense and candles.†  (source)
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    I didn't know the green coil was merely incense used to chase away mosquitoes and small flies.†  (source)
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    Tonight, the cavernous nave of Saint-Sulpice was as silent as a tomb, the only hint of life the faint smell of incense from mass earlier that evening.†  (source)
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    Harry laughed again because he knew it would incense her, the pain building in his head so badly he thought his skull might burst.†  (source)
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    Worship was a septon with a censer, the smell of incense, a seven-sided crystal alive with light, voices raised in song.†  (source)
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