courroucer

Courroucer is a literary, dated verb meaning to anger or enrage — it belongs to elevated or classical-style writing (fairy tales, older literature) rather than everyday conversation, where mettre en colère or énerver is what people actually say.

• Cette insolence courrouça le roi. — This insolence enraged the king.
• Elle craignait de courroucer les dieux. — She feared angering the gods.
• Son silence obstiné courrouçait son père. — His stubborn silence enraged his father.

Courroucer reads as deliberately formal or archaic — using it in ordinary conversation about being annoyed at, say, a late bus, would sound comically overwrought.