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outrage

OWT-rayj/ˈaʊt.ɹeɪd͡ʒ/

Pluraloutrages (some meanings)

Verboutrages, outraging, outraged

8 meanings of outrage

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  1. 1
    noununcountable
    Strong angry feelings caused when something seems deeply wrong or unfair.

    Like the hot, angry feeling you get when you watch someone treat a child badly.

    People felt great outrage when they heard about the cover-up.

    The unfair decision caused a lot of outrage in the town.

    Similaranger, indignation, fury, rage, outcry

  2. 2
    verbtransitive
    To make someone feel very angry and shocked.

    Stories like that outrage most people.

    The unfair punishment outraged the students.

    Similaranger, infuriate, enrage, incense, appall

    Oppositeplease, delight

  3. 3
    nouncountable
    An act that is very offensive, wrong, or shocking.

    Hurting an animal for fun is a real outrage.

    Stealing money from sick children is an outrage.

    Similardisgrace, scandal, affront, insult, offense

  4. 4
    nouncountable
    A very cruel and violent attack that shocks people.

    The attack on the village was a terrible outrage.

    Everyone called the killing a senseless outrage.

    Similaratrocity, barbarity, crime, enormity

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  5. 5
    verbtransitive
    To attack or harm someone or something in a cruel and violent way.

    The soldiers outraged the small village before moving on.

    People who outrage the weak deserve punishment.

    Similardesecrate, violate, defile, ravage, abuse

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Less common meanings

  1. 6
    verbarchaictransitive
    To rape or sexually attack someone.

    The raiders outraged the women they had captured.

    Anyone who tries to outrage a child faces severe punishment.

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  2. 7
    nounobsoletecountable
    A wild, destructive rampage that wrecks everything in its path.
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  3. 8
    verbobsoletetransitive
    To go beyond something else in wild anger or violence.
    Their will the tiger sucked, outraged the storm
    1742, [Edward Young], The ComplaintHere, outraged means raged more fiercely than.
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Origin

It came through Old French "outrage" (meaning "excess") from a Latin word for "beyond." Later people wrongly saw it as "out" + "rage," which changed how it sounds.