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fury
[fyoor-ee]
noun
plural
furiesunrestrained or violent anger, rage, passion, or the like.
The gods unleashed their fury on the offending mortal.
Synonyms: ,violence; vehemence; fierceness.
the fury of a hurricane;
a fury of creative energy.
Synonyms:Classical Mythology.Furies, 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
/ ˈʊəɪ /
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
informalviolently; furiously
they rode like fury
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of fury1
Idioms and Phrases
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The stalwart period has been stigmatized in text messages as an expression of simmering fury for years.
The sound of fury was heard when Cheikh Sabaly killed England off with Senegal's late third, the anger rising again when the final whistle went moments later.
But their fury was too easily co-opted by the few who want to wantonly destroy and used the cover of protest to do so.
The president’s historic deployment prompted fury among local Democratic officials who warned of an infringement on states’ rights.
This final turn is less consoling or condemnatory than darkly revealing about our assumptions about Michaela, who's portrayed as a controlling fury for most of the story.
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