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fu·ry 
[fyoor-ee] Pronunciation Key
[fyoor-ee] Pronunciation Key –noun, plural -ries.
—Idiom
| 1. | unrestrained or violent anger, rage, passion, or the like: The gods unleashed their fury on the offending mortal. |
| 2. | violence; vehemence; fierceness: the fury of a hurricane; a fury of creative energy. |
| 3. | Furies, Classical Mythology. minor female divinities: the daughters of Gaea 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. |
| 4. | a fierce and violent person, esp. a woman: She became a fury when she felt she was unjustly accused. |
| 5. | like fury, Informal. violently; intensely: It rained like fury. |
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| fu·ry
(fyŏŏr'ē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. fu·ries
[Middle English furie, from Old French, from Latin furia, from furere, to rage.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
fury
fury
c.1374, "fierce passion," from O.Fr. furie, from L. furia "violent passion, rage, madness," related to furere "to rage, be mad." Romans used Furiæ to translate Gk. Erinyes, the collecting name for the avenging deities sent from Tartarus to punish criminals (in later accounts three in number and female). Hence, figuratively, "an angry woman" (c.1374).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| fury | |
noun | |
| 1. | a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" |
| 2. | state of violent mental agitation [syn: craze] |
| 3. | the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" [syn: ferocity] |
| 4. | (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Fury
Fu"ry\, n. [L. fur.] A thief. [Obs.] Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. --J. Fleteher.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Fury
Fu"ry\, n.; pl. Furies. [L. furia, fr. furere to rage: cf. F. furie. Cf. Furor.]1. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. --Sir P. Sidney. 2. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. "Fury of the wind." --Shak. I do oppose my patience to his fury. --Shak. 3. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Meg[ae]ra; the Erinyes or Eumenides. The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him. --Emerson. 4. One of the Parc[ae], or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.] Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. --Milton. 5. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant. Syn: Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage; vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness; frenzy. See Anger.
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Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Fury
as attributed to God, is a figurative expression for dispensing afflictive judgments (Lev. 26:28; Job 20:23; Isa. 63:3; Jer. 4:4; Ezek. 5:13; Dan. 9:16; Zech. 8:2).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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