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fury
[ fyoor-ee ]
noun
- unrestrained or violent anger, rage, passion, or the like:
The gods unleashed their fury on the offending mortal.
the fury of a hurricane;
a fury of creative energy.
Synonyms: turbulence
- Furies, Classical Mythology. minor female divinities: the daughters of Gaia who punished crimes at the instigation of the victims: known to the Greeks as the Erinyes or Eumenides and to the Romans as the Furiae or Dirae. Originally there were an indefinite number, but were later restricted to Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone.
- a fierce and violent person, especially a woman:
She became a fury when she felt she was unjustly accused.
fury
/ ˈfjʊərɪ /
noun
- violent or uncontrolled anger; wild rage
- an outburst of such anger
- uncontrolled violence
the fury of the storm
- a person, esp a woman, with a violent temper
- See Furies
- like fury informal.violently; furiously
they rode like fury
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And black fury toward cops today is fueled by historic economic disparities and by the economic disaster of the past decade plus.
From righteous fury to faux indignation, everything we got mad about in 2014—and how outrage has taken over our lives.
The song is about rage and fury and passion, and I had a lot of pain that I wanted to release.
Head mistress Jean Harris is the ultimate proof of “Hell Hath No Fury like a Woman Scorned.”
Photos: Fury at the Ferguson Decision The fight for a fair justice system has gone far beyond Ferguson.
The attack was commenced by the allies under Blucher upon the French centre, with a fury irresistible.
Meanwhile the cabal against the ruined Ripperda raged with redoubled fury in the Spanish cabinet.
It burst upon them ere long with awful fury and grandeur, the elements warring with incredible vehemence.
That struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, that brought nations under in fury, that persecuted in a cruel manner.
Because in far distant times he saved the life of a Chinaman from the fury of a crocodile.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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