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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.
Synonyms: ,
the fury of a hurricane;
a fury of creative energy.
Synonyms:
- 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
/ ˈ´ÚÂáÊŠÉ™°ùɪ /
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
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of fury1
Idioms and Phrases
- like fury, Informal. violently; intensely:
It rained like fury.
More idioms and phrases containing fury
see hell has no fury like a woman scorned .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Despite widespread public fury at Yoon’s martial law declaration, his party has defended him, with some conservative lawmakers calling for the “destruction†of the Constitutional Court.
"There's still righteous fury about that in the city, and although the truth has come out, there's never been any justice really."
Hearst, in a fury, tried to shoot Chaplin but wound up shooting Ince instead, and the whole thing was supposed to have been covered up.
Trump only wishes he could wear the helmet and growl out “I AM the Law†with the fury of Stallone.
Elianne stood up for her friend when Sentamu turned up without the bear, which led to him chasing Elianne in a fury and stabbing her repeatedly as she lay on the ground.
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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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