Outrage

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  • noun. An act of extreme violence or viciousness.
  • noun. Something that is grossly offensive to decency, morality, or good taste.
  • noun. Resentful anger aroused by a violent or offensive act, or an instance of this.
  • transitive verb. To offend grossly against (standards of decency or morality); commit an outrage on.
  • transitive verb. To produce anger or resentment in: synonym: offend.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To attack; do violence, especially extreme wrong or violence, to; wrong heinously; maltreat.
  • To assault violently or brutally; commit a barbarous attack upon; especially, to violate; ravish.
  • To transgress shamefully; infringe audaciously upon; break through, violate, or offend against atrociously or flagrantly; act in utter or shameless disregard of the authority, obligation, or claims of.
  • Synonyms See affront, n.
  • To be excessive; commit excesses or extravagances; wanton; run riot; act without self-restraint or outrageously.
  • noun. A passing beyond bounds; a thing or act not within established or reasonable limits; in general, excess; extravagance; luxury.
  • noun. Violence; a violent act; violent injury.
  • noun. Gross insult or injury: infamous wrong; audacious and especially violent infraction of law and order; atrocious or barbarous ill treatment; wanton, indecent, or immoral violence, or an act of wanton mischief or violence, especially against the person.
  • noun. Synonyms Insult, Indignity, etc. See affront.
  • Unreasonable; violent; mad.
  • Extraordinary; unexampled; unusual; surprising; extravagant.
  • To exceed in raging; rage beyond or more than.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To commit outrage upon; to subject to outrage; to treat with violence or excessive abuse.
  • transitive verb. Specifically, to violate; to commit an indecent assault upon (a female).
  • transitive verb. To cause to become very angry.
  • noun. Injurious violence or wanton wrong done to persons or things; a gross violation of right or decency; excessive abuse; wanton mischief; gross injury.
  • noun. Excess; luxury.
  • intransitive verb. To be guilty of an outrage; to act outrageously.
  • transitive verb. To rage in excess of.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
  • noun. An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
  • noun. The resentful anger aroused by such acts.
  • noun. A destructive rampage.
  • verb. to cause or commit an outrage.
  • verb. to cause resentment through such acts.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. violate the sacred character of a place or language
  • verb. force (someone) to have sex against their will
  • verb. strike with disgust or revulsion
  • noun. a feeling of righteous anger
  • noun. the act of scandalizing
  • noun. a wantonly cruel act
  • noun. a disgraceful event
  • Word Usage
    "I withdraw the term outrage, in so far as it may suggest outrages of pillage or anarchy."
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    Seton  affront  assail  assault  atrocity  
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    abuse  anger  annoyance  atrocity  dismay  
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