Fury
['fjʊərɪ] or ['fjʊri]
Definition
(noun.) a feeling of intense anger; 'hell hath no fury like a woman scorned'; 'his face turned red with rage'.
(noun.) (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals.
Typist: Terrence--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A thief.
(n.) Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
(n.) Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
(n.) pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
(n.) One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
(n.) A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Rage, frenzy, madness, FUROR, violent anger.[2]. Impetuosity, vehemence.[3]. Goddess of Vengeance.[4]. Vixen, virago, hag, shrew, termagant, beldam, Xantippe, turbulent woman.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FURIOUS]
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Definition
n. rage: violent passion: madness: (myth.) one of the three goddesses of fate and vengeance the Erinyes or euphemistically Eumenides—Tisiphone Alecto and Meg鎟a—hence a passionate violent woman.
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Examples
- Legree, in a fury, swore she should be put to field service, if she would not be peaceable. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- For hours the fury of the storm continued without surcease, and still the tribe huddled close in shivering fear. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- On being informed of the old man's flight, his fury was unbounded. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They had their undercurrent of fables and superstitions, their phases of fear and abjection and sacrificial fury. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Turn out Tiger, and Fury, and the rest! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Being by this time a perfect Fury and a complete success, she made a dash at the door which I had fortunately locked. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But a bitterer red anger burned up to fury in him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It has scarce ever happened, that the fury and indignation of the people could otherwise be appeased. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It filled him with almost insane fury, this calm assumption of the Magna Mater, that all was hers, because she had borne it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I had dared and baffled his fury; I must elude his sorrow: I retired to the door. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I have started up so vividly impressed by it, that its fury has yet seemed raging in my quiet room, in the still night. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- All he had yet said, I could count as mere sound and fury, signifying nothing: not so of the present attack. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But no admonition would help, till that the wind of an hacquebute blasted his shoulder, and then ceased he from further pursuit in fury. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The lord of the gate, in a fury ran after Deerhurst and with some difficulty contrived to catch hold of his whip. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Many inventors have barely escaped with their lives from the fury of mobs who thought the inventor would take their living from them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Hell and furies! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mrs. Sparsit asked in a light conversational manner, after mentally devoting the whelp to the Furies for being so uncommunicative. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The winged furies were now prowling gossips who dropped in on each other for tea. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Those Furies, the conventionalities, being thus appeased, he left her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Madame de Belladonna made him a scene about you and fired off in one of her furies. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She was trembling with fear and anger--the rush of the furies' wings was in her ears. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Oh, Gerty, the furies . Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Typist: Osborn