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fu⋅ry

  [fyoor-ee]
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–noun, plural -ries.
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.
—Idiom
5. like fury, Informal. violently; intensely: It rained like fury.
Origin:
1325–75; ME < L furia rage, equiv. to fur(ere) to be angry, rage + -ia -y 2

Synonyms:
1. ire, wrath. See anger. 2. turbulence.
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fu·ry   (fyŏŏr'ē)   
n.   pl. fu·ries

  1. Violent anger; rage. See Synonyms at anger.

  2. Violent, uncontrolled action; turbulence.

  3. Furies Greek & Roman Mythology The three terrible winged goddesses with serpentine hair, Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone, who pursue and punish doers of unavenged crimes.

  4. A woman regarded as angry or spiteful.


[Middle English furie, from Old French, from Latin furia, from furere, to rage.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

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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Bible Dictionary

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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Idioms & Phrases

fury

see hell has no fury like a woman scorned.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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