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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



... have prevented such an outrage! Oh, I know that sorrowing father's heart! Fear, vanity, ambition, love ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... third week it was true that matters—always according to Mr. Greyne's letters home—slightly improved. While walking near the quay, in active search for nautical outrage, he saw an Arab dock labourer, who had been over-smoking kief, run amuck, and knock down a couple of respectable snake-charmers who were on the point of embarkation for Tunis with their reptiles. This incident had filed up a half-score of pages in exercise-book number one, ...
— The Mission Of Mr. Eustace Greyne - 1905 • Robert Hichens
... fifteen per cent. At the safe distance of a century and a half, the absurd prohibition and its incompetent administration are equally comic. At the time, however, there was nothing comic in the contempt for law and order thus engendered, in the feeling of outrage on the part of those ruined by seizures, and in the alliance of respectable merchants with the thieves and footpads enlisted for ...
— The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 • Various
... merely thrust the dangling obstruction aside and hurried on, with only a thought to it as the cause of the trouble upstairs. Ishmael, finding his beloved dog hanging thus, coming on it without a word of warning, felt a shock, a sense of unbelievable outrage that made him for a moment or two think he must be dreaming or out of his mind. He put out a hand and touched the pitiful thing before conviction came upon him, and with a shout of rage and pain he ...
— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse
... outrage, sir, an unspeakable outrage," declared Mr. Gale, hotly. "Such a thing would not be tolerated in the East. Mr. Belding, I'm amazed at your attitude in the face ...
— Desert Gold • Zane Grey


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