Fury










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Fury \Fu"ry\, n. [L. fur.]
A thief. [Obs.]
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Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. --J.
Fleteher.
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Fury \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.
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Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired.
--Sir P.
Sidney.
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2. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied
to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity;
violence. "Fury of the wind." --Shak.
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I do oppose my patience to his fury. --Shak.
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3. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto,
and Meg[ae]ra; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
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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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4. One of the Parc[ae], or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.]
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Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life. --Milton.
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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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fury
n 1: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman
scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury,
rage, madness]

2: state of violent mental agitation [syn: craze, delirium,
frenzy, fury, hysteria]

3: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's
violence" [syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness,
fury, vehemence, violence, wildness]

4: (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters
(usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
[syn: Fury, Eumenides, Erinyes]
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Fury
as attributed to God, is a figurative expression for dispensing
afflictive judgments (Lev. 26:28; Job 20:23; Isa. 63:3; Jer.

4:4; Ezek. 5:13; Dan. 9:16; Zech. 8:2).

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fury [fjeəriː]
Furie; Rage; Raserei; Wut; Zorn

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Furie f
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Grimm m
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Wut f; Zorn m; Raserei f
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196 Moby Thesaurus words for "fury":
Alecto, Jezebel, Mafioso, Megaera, Nemesis, Tartar, Tisiphone,
Young Turk, abandon, acerbity, acrimony, agitation, 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, fire-eater, firebrand, 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,
hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhag, hellhound, hellion, holy terror,
hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, hubbub, hysteria, impassionedness,
impetuosity, incendiary, indignation, infatuation, intoxication,
ire, killer, liveliness, mad, mad dog, madcap, madness, mania,
monster, mugger, murderous insanity, 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,
tearing passion, tempestuousness, termagant, terror, terrorist,
the Erinyes, the Eumenides, the Furies, tiger, tigress, 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, zeal, zealotism,
zealotry, zealousness



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