fury Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun a feeling of intense anger
madness; rage.
- hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
- his face turned red with rage
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noun state of violent mental agitation
delirium; frenzy; craze; hysteria.
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noun the property of being wild or turbulent
violence; furiousness; wildness; fierceness; vehemence; ferocity.
- the storm's violence
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noun (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
Eumenides; Erinyes.
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Fu"ry noun
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A thief. Obs.Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. J. Fleteher.
Fu"ry noun
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Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. Sir P. Sidney. -
Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. "Fury of the wind." Shak.I do oppose my patience to his fury. Shak.
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pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra; the Erinyes or Eumenides.The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him. Emerson.
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One of the Parcæ, or Fates, esp. Atropos. R.Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. Milton.
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A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant. Syn. -- Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage; vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness; frenzy. See Anger .