Outrage

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An act of extreme violence or viciousness.
  • n. An act grossly offensive to decency, morality, or good taste.
  • n. A deplorable insult.
  • n. Resentful anger aroused by a violent or offensive act.
  • v. To offend grossly against (standards of decency or morality); commit an outrage on.
  • v. To produce anger or resentment in: Incompetence outraged him. See Synonyms at offend.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
  • n. An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
  • n. The resentful anger aroused by such acts.
  • n. A destructive rampage.
  • v. to cause or commit an outrage.
  • v. to cause resentment through such acts.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To rage in excess of.
  • n. Injurious violence or wanton wrong done to persons or things; a gross violation of right or decency; excessive abuse; wanton mischief; gross injury.
  • n. Excess; luxury.
  • v. To commit outrage upon; to subject to outrage; to treat with violence or excessive abuse.
  • v. Specifically, to violate; to commit an indecent assault upon (a female).
  • v. To cause to become very angry.
  • verb-intransitive. To be guilty of an outrage; to act outrageously.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A passing beyond bounds; a thing or act not within established or reasonable limits; in general, excess; extravagance; luxury.
  • n. Violence; a violent act; violent injury.
  • n. Gross insult or injury: infamous wrong; audacious and especially violent infraction of law and order; atrocious or barbarous ill treatment; wanton, indecent, or immoral violence, or an act of wanton mischief or violence, especially against the person.
  • n. Synonyms Insult, Indignity, etc. See affront.
  • To attack; do violence, especially extreme wrong or violence, to; wrong heinously; maltreat.
  • To assault violently or brutally; commit a barbarous attack upon; especially, to violate; ravish.
  • To transgress shamefully; infringe audaciously upon; break through, violate, or offend against atrociously or flagrantly; act in utter or shameless disregard of the authority, obligation, or claims of.
  • Synonyms See affront, n.
  • To be excessive; commit excesses or extravagances; wanton; run riot; act without self-restraint or outrageously.
  • Unreasonable; violent; mad.
  • Extraordinary; unexampled; unusual; surprising; extravagant.
  • To exceed in raging; rage beyond or more than.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. violate the sacred character of a place or language
  • v. force (someone) to have sex against their will
  • v. strike with disgust or revulsion
  • n. a feeling of righteous anger
  • n. the act of scandalizing
  • n. a wantonly cruel act
  • n. a disgraceful event
  • Verb Form
    outraged    outrages    outraging   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    assault    assail    attack    Seton    disgust    revolt    nauseate    sicken    churn up    affront   
    Cross Reference
    injury    insult    abuse    agrarian outrage   
    Form
    outragen    outraging   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abuse    affront    insult    excess    luxury    atrocity    enormity    injure    illtreat   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    injustice    oppression    violence    atrocity    anger    annoyance    insult    horror    abuse    rebellion