(US, nonstandard, transitive) To make angry, to anger.
The way he said it, the way it came out of his mouth, I knew Scut was angrifying.
Angrify means: To make angry, to anger.. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than risky behaviour. If your teen uses it, context will usually make the intent clear. A short, curious question about where they heard it is usually all that is needed to know whether to follow up.
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An attempt to express anger that spectacularly backfires — a rant that accidentally makes you look worse, a confrontation where you forgot the key detail, or a dramatic exit that ends in a revolving door. Angrify fails are peak comedy in hindsight and peak misery in the moment. The internet loves them: someone finally gathers the courage to call someone out and gets the date wrong, or threatens to quit and gets taken up on it immediately. The universe has a habit of not cooperating with righteous anger.
The identifiable mental and emotional state where a person has crossed from annoyed into fully activated anger and is operating on a short fuse for everything. Someone in angrify mode doesn't need new provocations — they're already primed. Every small inconvenience stacks, every question feels like an attack, and the best thing you can do is either fix the original problem fast or give them space. Common in workplaces, family group chats, and anywhere a single bad morning compounds over twelve hours.
A person, situation, or trigger that reliably makes people angry — the office coworker who chews loudly, the group chat that never mutes, or the policy that was clearly designed by someone who has never dealt with real life. An angrifyer doesn't have to mean to provoke; some are blissfully unaware of the chaos they cause. The word is playful and detached, letting you vent about infuriating things without the drama of saying 'I hate that person' outright. Maximum relatability, minimum commitment.
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To make angry, to anger.
Angrify means: To make angry, to anger.. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than risky behaviour. If your teen uses it, context will usually make the intent clear. A short, curious question about where they heard it is usually all that is needed to know whether to follow up.
angrify means: To make angry, to anger.. Register: neutral, standard English. A common learner mistake is using the word in a register it does not fit, or assuming a single global meaning; native speakers immediately notice when slang appears in formal contexts, so always check the surrounding register before producing it yourself. A formal-English equivalent (a synonym or descriptive phrase) is usually safer in writing. When in doubt, paraphrase rather than reuse the slang form.
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