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Outrage   /ˈaʊtrˌeɪdʒ/   Listen
noun
Outrage  n.  
1.
Injurious violence or wanton wrong done to persons or things; a gross violation of right or decency; excessive abuse; wanton mischief; gross injury. "He wrought great outrages, wasting all the country."
2.
Excess; luxury. (Obs.)
Synonyms: Affront; insult; abuse. See Affront.


verb
Outrage  v. t.  To rage in excess of. (R.)


Outrage  v. t.  (past & past part. outragen; pres. part. outraging)  
1.
To commit outrage upon; to subject to outrage; to treat with violence or excessive abuse. "Base and insolent minds outrage men when they have hope of doing it without a return." "This interview outrages all decency."
2.
Specifically, to violate; to commit an indecent assault upon (a female).
3.
To cause to become very angry; as, the burning of the flag outraged the small conservative town.


Outrage  v. i.  To be guilty of an outrage; to act outrageously.





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"Outrage" Quotes from Famous Books



... the stranger; and Samuel told him. Also he told him where he had come from and what had happened to him. He took particular pains to tell about the jail, because he did not want to deceive anyone. But his companion merely called it "an infernal outrage." ...
— Samuel the Seeker • Upton Sinclair
... sister of my blood and heart, See'st thou how Zeus would in our lives fulfill The weird of Oedipus, a world of woes! For what of pain, affliction, outrage, shame, Is lacking in our fortunes, thine and mine? And now this proclamation of today Made by our Captain-General to the State, What can its purport be? Didst hear and heed, Or art thou deaf when ...
— The Oedipus Trilogy • Sophocles
... dissension and tumults in the Church; and, besides, the whole system of Christianity was violently assailed by both the Jews and the pagans. The disciples at Corinth were in the midst of a great controversy. According to Eastern ideas, it was an outrage upon propriety and decency, not only for a woman to take part by publicly asking questions, or teaching in any such disorderly assembly, but even for her to be present therein. To avoid the very appearance of evil, they ...
— Woman: Man's Equal • Thomas Webster
... the attack from the air caused an outcry from the nations of the Entente almost equal to that which rang through the world when the Germans shelled the cathedral at Rheims and destroyed Louvain. The Austrians replied that the attack was a serious military operation, and by no means the wanton outrage their enemies had tried to make ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various
... the consequences of their outrage, the Mandanes exhibited repentance of a characteristically human form—resentment against the cause of their trouble. Unfortunately, I was the cause. From the black looks of the young men I half suspected, if the Sioux chief would accept me in lieu of material gifts, ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut


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