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Meaning of 'fury' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Fury [ n.]
- A thief.
- Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
- Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
- pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
- One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
- A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.

Meaning of 'fury' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . fury [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a feeling of intense anger
Example in sentence:
  • hell hath no fury like a woman scorned;
  • his face turned red with rage
Meaning (2):
- the property of being wild or turbulent
Example in sentence:
  • the storm's violence

Nearby Words:

fur furacious furacity furbelow furbelowed furbelowing furbish furbishable furbished furbisher

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