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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
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of fury1
Idioms and Phrases
More idioms and phrases containing fury
see hell has no fury like a woman scorned .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The American people are perfectly capable of judging the policies that affect their lives and conveying the fury they would feel toward politicians who would threaten them.
It is easy to imagine a Republican Party that tips deeper into ethnonationalist grievance and social traditionalism in the coming years and builds a fuller agenda through which to express its furies.
It poses a unique opportunity for bad actors to inject misinformation into the situation and for fury and frustration to build.
As he has throughout the course of his political career, he doubled down and struck back at his opponents with equal if not greater fury.
It’s impossible to attribute the fury of any one storm to climate change, but scientists have observed a statistically significant link between warmer waters and hurricane intensity.
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.
Photos: Fury at the Ferguson Decision I had yet to be born to observe the events of Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965.
Photos: Fury at the Ferguson Verdict If only those gossips and busybodies on Twitter had kept their mouths shut.
The fury sparked by the disappearance of more thant 40 students in Iquala will not die.
You can already track the rise of anti-Islamic fury on Canadian news site comment sections.
They were shouting with a mixture of fury and desperation about their families in Kobani, under siege just across the line.
Hell hath no fury like a smartphone-toting, partially informed One Directioner.
Hell hath no fury like a woman whose breasts are engorged with milk.
But the man who truly aroused their fury is the Egyptian general-turned-president Abdel Fattah al Sisi.
There was no further fury, no declaration that enough is enough.
They fought the Germans with the specific fury of men whose country was the first to be blitzkrieged in 1939.
It would be such a relief if we had a cultural cure-all for these sources of anger and fury.
Not so this time, as Fury had an integral reason for being there, and added muscle, brains and plenty of sharp lines.
But their fury was seemingly fuelled by statements that I had never made, nor did I believe.
In the early 1990s, the Lesbian Avengers took gay politics into the sound and fury of street activism.
The man did not seem to expect such an affirmation and he appeared to be suddenly drained of his fury.
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.
Correct me, O Lord, but yet with judgment: and not in thy fury, lest thou bring me to nothing.
Sangree stared at me with a curious expression as the fury died out of his face and a new look of alarm took its place.
And the sight of the tracks about Mrs. Maloney's tent, where Joan now slept, set him in a perfect fury.
Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name.
But the fury of the dabblers in bricks and mortar continues unabated, and they will not last long.
Thereon, Augereau in fury snatched the whip from the officer, who at once drew his sword and attacked him.
Buzot was then an exile, pursued by unrelenting fury, and concealed in the caves of St. Emilion.
And I will judge thee as adulteresses, and they that shed blood are judged: and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
Madame Malmaison subsided before the splendid fury of Jessie's anger.
Upon hearing this, the king in fury, and in great wrath, commanded that all the wise men of Babylon should be put to death.
The daughter of Madame Roland succeeded in escaping the fury of the tyrants of the Revolution.
Jessie saw the dark eyes blaze and the stern face of the countess stiffen with fury.
His face was full of wrath as he gazed within, and he quivered with fury as he ordered the two miscreants out of the place.
The storm, of which these events were the precursors, at length burst with fury on the Christians in the year 303.
At times the rage of persecution slumbered, and again it burst forth with inextinguishable fury.
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