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Fury Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Fury?
[n] the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
[n] a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [n] (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals [n] state of violent mental agitation Synonyms | Synonyms for Fury: craze | delirium | Erinyes | Eumenides | ferocity | fierceness | frenzy | furiousness | hysteria | madness | rage | vehemence | violence | wildness Related Terms | Find terms related to Fury: abandon | acerbity | acrimony | agitation | Alecto | amok | anger | ardency | ardor | asperity | attack | battle-ax | bear | beast | beldam | berserk | berserker | bitch | bitch-kitty | bluster | bomber | brawl | broil | brouhaha | brute | burning rage | cacophony | cat | chaos | choler | common scold | commotion | convulsion | crank | craze | crosspatch | delirium | demon | devil | disturbance | dragon | ebullition | ecstasy | embroilment | excitement | fanaticism | feist | ferment | ferocity | fervency | fervidness | fervor | fever | fiend | fierceness | fire | fire and fury | firebrand | fire-eater | fishwife | fit | flap | fomentation | foofaraw | frenzy | fume | furious rage | furor | furore | fuss | goon | gorilla | grimalkin | grizzly bear | grouch | gunsel | gusto | hag | hardnose | heart | heartiness | heat | hellcat | hellhag | hellhound | hellion | hell-raiser | holy terror | hood | hoodlum | hothead | hotspur | hubbub | hysteria | impassionedness | impetuosity | incendiary | indignation | infatuation | intoxication | ire | Jezebel | killer | liveliness | mad | mad dog | madcap | madness | Mafioso | mania | Megaera | monster | mugger | murderous insanity | Nemesis | orgasm | orgy | overambitiousness | overanxiety | overanxiousness | overeagerness | overenthusiasm | overzealousness | pandemonium | paroxysm | passion | passionateness | psychokinesia | racket | rage | rancor | rapist | rapture | ravishment | relish | revolutionary | row | ruckus | rumpus | savage | savagery | savor | scold | seizure | she-devil | she-wolf | shrew | siren | sorehead | soul | spasm | spirit | spitfire | storminess | Tartar | tearing passion | tempestuousness | termagant | terror | terrorist | the Erinyes | the Eumenides | the Furies | tiger | tigress | Tisiphone | tough | tough guy | towering rage | transport | tumult | tumultuousness | turbulence | turmoil | ugly customer | uproar | upset | vehemence | verve | violence | violent | virago | vixen | warmth | warmth of feeling | wild beast | wildcat | wildness | witch | wolf | wrath | Young Turk | zeal | zealotism | zealotry | zealousness See Also | Alecto | anger | choler | intensity | intensiveness | ire | lividity | mania | manic disorder | Megaera | mythical creature | mythical monster | nympholepsy | Tisiphone | wrath Fury In Webster's Dictionary \Fu"ry\, n. [L. fur.]
A thief. [Obs.]
Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. --J.
Fleteher.
\Fu"ry\, n.; pl. {Furies}. [L. furia, fr. furere to rage: cf. F. furie. Cf. {Furor}.] 1. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. --Sir P. Sidney. 2. 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. 3. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Meg[ae]ra; 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. 4. One of the Parc[ae], or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.] Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. --Milton. 5. 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}. |
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