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fury

[fyoor-ee]

noun

plural

furies 
  1. unrestrained or violent anger, rage, passion, or the like.

    The gods unleashed their fury on the offending mortal.

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  2. violence; vehemence; fierceness.

    the fury of a hurricane;

    a fury of creative energy.

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  3. 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.

  4. a fierce and violent person, especially a woman.

    She became a fury when she felt she was unjustly accused.



fury

/ ˈʊəɪ /

noun

  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. informalviolently; furiously

    they rode like fury

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fury1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English furey, furye, from Old French furie, from Latin furia “rage,” equivalent to fur(ere) “to be angry, rage” + -ia, noun suffix; -y 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fury1

C14: from Latin furia rage, from furere to be furious
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. like fury, violently; intensely.

    It rained like fury.

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Synonym Study

See anger.
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Example Sentences

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The stalwart period has been stigmatized in text messages as an expression of simmering fury for years.

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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.

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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.

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The president’s historic deployment prompted fury among local Democratic officials who warned of an infringement on states’ rights.

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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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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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