Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - incense

(incensing, incensed) 1. Incense is a substance that is burned for its sweet smell, often as part of a religious ceremony. N-UNCOUNT 2. If you say that something incenses you, you mean that it makes you extremely angry. This proposal will incense conservation campaigners. = enrage VERB: V n • incensed Mum was incensed at his lack of compassion... ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ at/by n, ADJ that