All 4 Uses of
incensed
in
Catch-22
- He was a prick, and no one knew this better than General Dreedle, who was incensed by General Peckem's recent directive requiring all tents in the Mediterranean theater of operations to be pitched along parallel lines with entrances facing back proudly toward the Washington Monument.†
Chpt 3incensed = very angered
- Corporal Whitcomb was incensed.†
Chpt 20 *
- I'm absolutely incensed.'†
Chpt 27
- Major Danby confided that Group was incensed with all flight surgeons because of Dr. Stubbs, the bushy-haired, baggy-chinned, slovenly flight surgeon in Dunbar's squadron who was deliberately and defiantly brewing insidious dissension there by grounding all men with sixty missions on proper forms that were rejected by Group indignantly with orders restoring the confused pilots, navigators, bombardiers and gunners to combat duty.†
Chpt 31
Definitions:
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(1)
(incensed as in: incensed by her insult) very angered
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
More commonly, incense refers to something that is slowly burned to create a pleasant smell.