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FURY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being wild or turbulent
Example:
the storm's violence
Synonyms:
ferocity; fierceness; furiousness; fury; vehemence; violence; wildness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("fury" is a kind of...):
intensity; intensiveness (high level or degree; the property of being intense)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fury"):
savageness; savagery (the property of being untamed and ferocious)
Derivation:
furious ((of the elements) as if showing violent anger)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A feeling of intense anger
Example:
his face turned red with rage
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("fury" is a kind of...):
anger; choler; ire (a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fury"):
wrath (intense anger (usually on an epic scale))
lividity (a state of fury so great the face becomes discolored)
Derivation:
furious (marked by extreme anger)
infuriate (make furious)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
mythical creature; mythical monster (a monster renowned in folklore and myth)
Domain category:
classical mythology (the system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greeks)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Fury"):
Alecto; Megaera; Tisiphone (one of the three Furies)
Sense 4
Meaning:
State of violent mental agitation
Synonyms:
craze; delirium; frenzy; fury; hysteria
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("fury" is a kind of...):
mania; manic disorder (a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fury"):
nympholepsy (a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable)
epidemic hysertia; mass hysteria (a condition in which a large group of people exhibit the same state of violent mental agitation)
Derivation:
infuriate (make furious)
Context examples:
The old fellow's fury was awful.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Then on guard again!” cried the young squire, and sprang in with a fire and a fury which more than made up for the shortness of his weapon.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A violent gust of wind, rising with sudden fury, added fresh horror to the moment.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Sometimes, indeed, he left marks in writing on the barks of the trees or cut in stone that guided me and instigated my fury.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The carter was mad with fury; and without looking about him, or caring what he was about, struck again at the sparrow; but killed his third horse as he done the other two.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I have held my own in many a struggle, but the man had a grip of iron and the fury of a fiend.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"It proves," he roared, with a sudden blast of fury, "that you are the damnedest imposter in London—a vile, crawling journalist, who has no more science than he has decency in his composition!"
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then there was Monsieur Rudin, the French Royalist refugee who lived over on the Pangdean road, and who, when the news of a victory came in, was convulsed with joy because we had beaten Buonaparte, and shaken with rage because we had beaten the French, so that after the Nile he wept for a whole day out of delight and then for another one out of fury, alternately clapping his hands and stamping his feet.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I gnashed my teeth upon him with a gust of devilish fury; and the smile withered from his face—happily for him—yet more happily for myself, for in another instant I had certainly dragged him from his perch.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
This writer went through all the usual topics of European moralists, showing how diminutive, contemptible, and helpless an animal was man in his own nature; how unable to defend himself from inclemencies of the air, or the fury of wild beasts: how much he was excelled by one creature in strength, by another in speed, by a third in foresight, by a fourth in industry.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
