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Outraged   /ˈaʊtrˌeɪdʒd/   Listen
Outraged

adjective
1.
Angered at something unjust or wrong.  Synonyms: incensed, indignant, umbrageous.  "Incensed at the judges' unfairness" , "A look of outraged disbelief" , "Umbrageous at the loss of their territory"



Outrage

verb
(past & past part. outragen; pres. part. outraging)
1.
Strike with disgust or revulsion.  Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, scandalise, scandalize, shock.
2.
Violate the sacred character of a place or language.  Synonyms: desecrate, profane, violate.  "Violate the sanctity of the church" , "Profane the name of God"
3.
Force (someone) to have sex against their will.  Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, rape, ravish, violate.



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"Outraged" Quotes from Famous Books



... company with J. J. White, professor of Greek, as their captain. Drilling was the occupation of the day; the students having excellent instructors in the cadets and their professors. Our outraged president had set out alone in his private carriage for his former home in ...
— The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson • Edward A. Moore

... Chinese from being smuggled into the United States. Belding kept close at home to protect his family and to hold his property. But the three rangers, in fulfilling their duty had incurred risks on their own side of the line, had been outraged, robbed, pursued, and injured on the other. Some of the few waterholes that had to be reached lay far across the border in Mexican territory. Horses had to drink, men had to drink; and Ladd and Lash were not of the ...
— Desert Gold • Zane Grey

... not for me to blame him in his wrath, when, beside himself with righteous fury, he gave the bellowing yokels their heads and swept on with them to destruction. The mutinous fools who had called him coward and traitor fell back as their outraged commander strode silently through the disordered ranks, noticing neither the proffered apologies of Colonel Paris nor the stammered excuses of Colonel Cox. Behind him stalked the tall Oneida, silent, stern, small eyes flashing. And now began the immense uproar of departure; confused ...
— The Maid-At-Arms • Robert W. Chambers

... ever. In vain can these dreary portals be ever again unbarred for the children of fallen humanity. He has gone there as their surety-Saviour. If his suretyship be accepted—if He meet and fulfil all the requirements of an outraged law, the gates of the dismal prison-house will and must be opened. If, on the other hand, there be any flaw or deficiency in His person or work as the Kinsman-Redeemer, then no power can snap the chains which ...
— Memories of Bethany • John Ross Macduff

... then preaching in the village of Brooklyn, and the speeches and poems of the two eloquent reformers, Charles C. and William H. Burleigh. The words and deeds of these and other great souls, though seeming to slumber for many years, gave birth at last to new demands for another class of outraged citizens. Thus liberty is ever born of the hateful spirit of persecution. One question of reform settled forever by the civil war, the initiative for the next was soon taken. In The Revolution of January 16, 1868, we find the following well-considered report on woman's enfranchisement, ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various


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