Outrage

Quick meaning: Outrage is a noun meaning An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.

Meaning

An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.

More Meanings

1. An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
2. (uncountable) The resentful, indignant, or shocked anger aroused by such acts.
3. (transitive) To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
4. (transitive) To inspire feelings of outrage in.
5. (obsolete) A destructive rampage.
6. (archaic, transitive) To sexually violate; to rape.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To rage in excess of.

Example Sentences

The senator's comments outraged the community.

Their will the tiger sucked, outraged the storm

1725-1726, William Broome, Odyssey The interview […] outrages all the rules of decency.

August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet Base and insolent minds […] outrage men when they have Hopes of doing it without a Return.

Word Forms

• outrages
• outraging
• outraged

Synonyms for outrage

Depending on context, synonyms include depravity, wrong, atrocity, infamy, iniquity, turpitude.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include offend, indignation, exasperate, scandalize, scandalization, scandal.

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