inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one’s gizzard; rankle &e. 919; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw.
     put out of countenance, put out of humor; put one’s monkey up, put
one’s back up; raise one’s gorge, raise one’s dander, raise one’s choler; work up into a passion; make one’s blood boil, make the ears tingle; throw, into a ferment, madden, drive one mad; lash into fury, lash into madness; fool to the top of one’s bent; set by the ears.
     bring a hornet’s nest about one’s ears. 
     Adj. angry, wrath, irate; ireful, wrathful; cross &c. (irascible) 901;
Achillean[obs3]; sulky, &c. 901a; bitter, virulent; acrimonious &c. (discourteous) &c. 895; violent &c. 173.
     warm, burning; boiling, boiling over; fuming, raging; foaming, foaming
at the mouth; convulsed with rage.
     offended &c. v.; waxy, acharne; wrought, worked up; indignant, hurt,
sore; set against.
     fierce, wild, rageful[obs3], furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate,
rabid, savage; relentless &c. 919.
     flushed with anger, flushed with rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a
fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way; on one’s high ropes, up in arms; in high dudgeon. 
     Adv. angrily &c. adj.; in the height of passion; in the heat of
passion, in the heat of the moment. 
     Int. tantaene animis coelestibus irae [Lat][Vergil]! marry come up!
zounds! ’sdeath! 
     Phr. one’s blood being up, one’s back being up, one’s monkey being up;
fervens difficili bile jecur[Lat]; the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire; the blood rising, the blood boiling; haeret lateri lethalis arundo [Lat][Vergil]; “beware the fury of a patient man” [Dryden]; furor arma ministrat [Lat][Vergil]; ira furor brevis est [Lat][Horace]; quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius[Lat]; “What, drunk with choler?” [Henry IV].

     #901.  Irascibility. —­ N. irascibility, irascibleness, temper;
crossness &c. adj.; susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity; pugnacity &c. (contentiousness) 720.
     excitability &c. 825; bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper,
irritable &c. adj. temper; genus irritabile[Lat], hot blood.
     ill humor &c. (sullenness) 901a; asperity &c., churlishness &c.
(discourtesy) 895.
     huff &c. (resentment) 900; a word and a blow. 
     Sir Fretful Plagiary; brabbler[obs3], Tartar; shrew, vixen, virago,
termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe; porcupine; spitfire; fire eater &c. (blusterer) 887; fury &c. (violent person) 173. 
     V. be irascible &c. adj.; have a temper &c. n., have a devil in one;
fire up &c. (be angry) 900. 
     Adj. irascible; bad-tempered, ill-tempered; irritable, susceptible;
excitable &c. 825; thin-skinned &c. (sensitive) 822;