Preposition: with

• rage: Writer Daniel Byrne's story is so full of historical blunders, that it would make any student of French history apoplectic with rage!

Converse of object

• go: He went apoplectic & said " I am a Labor MP!

Modifies a noun

• fit: Think of accidents, think of sudden illness, think of apoplectic fits, Laura.

• seizure: Witness: It would probably recur in the nature of an apoplectic seizure with violent pains in the head.

Modifying Another Word

• almost: Almost apoplectic with rage he told the guys in the butts to hang on a minute and threw the telephone to the floor.

• positively: Who is positively apoplectic if someone answers their phone during dinner?

Used with adjective complement

• become: Politicians will dismiss a rise in crime figures as " mostly traffic offenses " , whilst becoming quite apoplectic about car theft and joyriding.