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noun, plural -ries.

unrestrained or violent anger, rage, passion, or the like: The gods unleashed their fury on the offending mortal.

violence; vehemence; fierceness: the fury of a hurricane; a fury of creative energy.

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.

a fierce and violent person, especially a woman: She became a fury when she felt she was unjustly accused.

Idiom

like fury, Informal. violently; intensely: It rained like fury.

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a monster that had the head of a bull on the body of a man housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus killed it

the greatest Greek warrior in the Trojan War, hero of Homer's Iliad, who was killed when Paris wounded him in the heel, his one vulnerable spot

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Origin:
1325–75; Middle English < Latin furia rage, equivalent to fur(ere) to be angry, rage + -ia -y²

Can be confused: furore, fury.

Synonyms
1. ire, wrath. See anger. 2. turbulence.

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Example Sentences

The well-conditioned thin are made furious by the fatties-the abstemious being singularly disposed to fury.

But that provoked fury from his trade union allies at home.

Within a minute of this shot, the storm unleashed its fury on the beach.

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The well-conditioned thin are made furious by the fatties-the abstemious being singularly disposed to fury.

But that provoked fury from his trade union allies at home.

Within a minute of this shot, the storm unleashed its fury on the beach.

Like a forum flamer, they often lurk, then let loose with burning fury.

The fury of revenge can leave its possessor more tormented than satisfied.

Very true, but the current sound and fury should be viewed with a certain perspective.

With storm season in full fury last summer, explore the historic mayhem wrought by hurricanes.

Indifference is a much more effective means of exacting revenge than fury.

Learn what makes nature unleash her fury and what you can do to protect yourself.

No vulnerable ex-student should ever be exposed to the fury of powerful profs.

There was almost nothing between them and the unrestrained fury of this cataclysmic hurricane.

The positions they take may be ideological, but the intensity of their fury isn't.

The left takes this fury as further evidence that the right is stupid, angry and dangerous.

In one sense, that job looks less forbidding than the sound and fury suggests.

Explore the fury of samurai warfare-from gory beheadings to fierce sword fights- in minute detail above.

That's more than enough destructive potential to vent our appliance-induced fury.

One cannot hope to capture its sound or fury on the page.

And on streets where fury and noise reign, it runs almost silently.

But behind the froth and fury are two important points.

Here are some tips on how to survive the fury of a hurricane.

The media welcomed his views as a reflection of public fury at the blatant politicisation of a national obsession.

Hundreds of bullet scars on the church's walls still testify to the fury of the ensuing fight.

Others contend that the cap won't stop the fury of the hot spot.

In winter the wind blows with such fury picture windows fronting the harbor bow in from the pressure.

The narrative seemed to pour out in a nonstop burst of barely controlled fury.

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World English Dictionary

fury (ˈfjʊərɪ)

—n , pl -ries
1.	violent or uncontrolled anger; wild rage
2.	an outburst of such anger
3.	uncontrolled violence: the fury of the storm
4.	a person, esp a woman, with a violent temper
5.	See Furies
6.	informal like fury violently; furiously: they rode like fury

[C14: from Latin furia rage, from furere to be furious]

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Word Origin & History

fury

late 14c., "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

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and female). Hence, figuratively, "an angry woman" (late 14c.).

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Easton

Bible Dictionary

Fury definition

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).

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Idioms & Phrases

fury

see hell has no fury like a woman scorned.