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outraged

[out-reyj]

noun

an act of wanton cruelty or violence; any gross violation of law or decency.

anything that strongly offends, insults, or affronts the feelings.

a powerful feeling of resentment or anger aroused by something perceived as an injury, insult, or injustice: Outrage seized the entire nation at the news of the attempted assassination.

verb (used with object)

to subject to grievous violence or indignity.

to anger or offend; make resentful; shock: I am outraged by his whole attitude.

to offend against (right, decency, feelings, etc.) grossly or shamelessly: Such conduct outrages our normal sense of decency.

to rape.

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Outraged is always a great word to know.

So is interrobang. Does it mean:

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French outrage, ultrage, equivalent to outr(er) to push beyond bounds (derivative of outre beyond < Latin ultrā) + -age -age

Related forms

un·out·raged, adjective

Synonyms
2. offense, abuse, indignity. 7. violate.

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He had every right to be outraged and to raise his voice.

But there's also a real lack of perspective among the more outraged anti-for-profit critics.

The latest in a series of violent deaths at the college has outraged public opinion.

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He had every right to be outraged and to raise his voice.

But there's also a real lack of perspective among the more outraged anti-for-profit critics.

The latest in a series of violent deaths at the college has outraged public opinion.

But the public rarely gets outraged and the fuss never lasts for long.

It's simply based on the loudest hue and cry from the outraged villagers.

Marta is not my only neighbor who is outraged by the productivity of her tomato plants.

Users of the moPhone were outraged nearly to the point of not carrying the things every damn where.

The only one who didn't feel uncomfortable was the outraged author.

His escape, after a week in which the armed forces had resisted his dismissal, outraged human-rights groups.

What's unusual is that the monarch, rather than an outraged citizenry, was the primary force behind the reallocation of power.

Now that fuzzy math has de-emphasized math facts, parents are outraged.

Outraged by the damage inflicted by a fast-spreading spyware application, a pair of high school students team up to fight back.

It is profound, any non-victim-minded citizen should be outraged.

The announcement has also outraged immigrant-rights advocates and civil-liberties groups.

Wildlife experts and outraged volunteers launch a full-scale investigation, setting up night patrols to find the killer.

Pakistani reaction has ranged from muted to outraged.

And the slings and arrows of outraged misfortune will no doubt fly and land in heaps.

Foreign opinion will be outraged by the farcical legal case, but impotent.

Some outraged reports are claiming the teenager hasn't even been charged with a crime.

Folks also nod their heads and kind of tisk me for not being more outraged and outspoken about the matter.

Voters are furious, and have been outraged even more by two related issues.

When the truth came out, many journalists were outraged.

Outraged on his behalf for his infant abandonment, my mother tried to get my grandpa to admit his plight.

Male relatives, outraged by this invasion of modesty, demanded the footage.

The story has generated a steady stream of outraged opinion pieces in the country's newspapers.

And rather than speak in one outraged voice, it is giving these thugs the comfort of mixed messages.

But the beating of the jovial bushy-bearded artist has outraged many.

He was personally outraged by the arrest and wanted to speak bluntly.

She is outraged that virtually all females consider their looks as key to their self-image.

Just followed the conversation on a listserv and said she was outraged when she found out about the censorship incident.

It is outraged nature exacting revenge for attempted defiance of nature's laws.

It's not really something that one can get morally outraged about, since science is extremely expensive.

As could be expected, many folks were outraged and offended by the.

Such tactics have outraged civil libertarians, who say the police have no business selling drugs to the public.

While this resolution is not legally binding, much of the public was outraged that the whalers would patently disregard.

We would be outraged if others attacked us with these weapons.

Fans were outraged that we'd egregiously overlooked their personal favorites.

They are primarily from outraged students attempting to blast him for being too difficult and too much of a jerk.

But government corruption increasingly outraged her.

Some parents are already outraged by the imagined spectre of tracking.

Most proposals for wind farms in residential areas have been met with outraged not-in-my-backyard-ism.

Petkovic had been treated, he says, and was outraged at the threat of a lawsuit against a graduate student by a senior scholar.

It's no wonder taxpayers are outraged at the level of executive pay and high.

Her outraged widower spurred a protest that escalated into a riot.

All true secularists would be outraged if it were otherwise.

Chris is not surprised, but he's outraged on behalf of his friend.

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Word Origin & History

outrage

late 13c., "violent behavior, excess, extravagance," from O.Fr. outrage (12c.), earlier oltrage (11c.), from V.L. *ultraticum "excess," from L. ultra "beyond." Etymologically, "the passing beyond reasonable bounds" in any sense; meaning narrowed in Eng. toward violent excesses because of folk etymology

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from out + rage. Of injuries to feelings, principles, etc., from 1769. The verb is from c.1300 in the sense of "to go to excess;" 1580s with meaning "do violence to."

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