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Meaning outrage meaning

What does outrage mean?
Definitions in simple English

outrage Noun

— An outrage is a very violent act. He kicked a puppy which was an outrage. — An outrage can be an act that offends many people. Burning the US flag was an outrage. — Outrage is a feeling of anger towards people who have been violent or offensive. He was outraged by by the attack on the old lady.

outrage Verb

— To outrage someone is to be very violent or cause great offence. He outraged Muslims when he burned copies of the Koran.

outrage

— verb (= shock) strike with disgust or revulsion The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends — noun a wantonly cruel act — noun (= indignation) a feeling of righteous anger — noun (= scandal) a disgraceful event — noun (= scandalization) the act of scandalizing — verb (= desecrate, profane, violate) violate the sacred character of a place or language desecrate a cemetery violate the sanctity of the church profane the name of God — verb (= rape) force (someone) to have sex against their will The woman was raped on her way home at night

Synonyms outrage synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as outrage?

outrage English » English

violence insult assault violate offend anger violation scandal indignation atrocity affront shock ravish rage offense dishonour attack appall villainy scandalize rape fury force excess enrage disgrace crime wrath vex oppression offence dishonor appal abuse upset tyranny tumult scandalization scandalise scandalisation riot profane mischief make angry madden infringe ill-treatment horrify exasperate do violence

Topics outrage topics

What do people use outrage to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Sad

Shock
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Angry
Social behavior Law

Break the law

Conjugation outrage conjugation

How do you conjugate outrage?

outrage · verb

Examples outrage examples

How do I use outrage in a sentence?

Simple sentences

What he did was an outrage.
What that man's done is an outrage.
Your outrage is completely justified.
Her outrage is completely justified.
Mary gave utterance to her outrage and turned away from Tom, offended.
The proposed law triggered a storm of outrage.
It's an outrage.
We can't tolerate such an outrage.

Movie subtitles

This is an outrage!
The wick of his lighter under the bridle of the horse, shows the premeditation of his hideous outrage.
This is outrage, not to pay for lodging for a second month!
Do you not see that you outrage God by your obstinacy?
It's an outrage!
In the meantime, you expect our children to read of outrage and murder.
It would be an outrage if we were to lose. what we have fought for. with so much labor, so much worry. so much sacrifice, and so many privations.
I think her presence here is an outrage.
It is an outrage.
It's an outrage a man can't stand up for law and order.
It's a vile outrage, a shame.
Sir, this is an outrage, breaking into a man's home.
Do you mean to say Mr Chang is responsible for this outrage?
Captain Harvey, tell him that the world will be informed of this outrage.
An outrage!
Yes. This is an outrage!
What's his latest outrage?
Our men can't lay a hot iron in the eyes of a tax dodger without getting an arrow in the throat. It's an outrage!
But it's an outrage!
This is an outrage.
Well, it was horrible enough for Jimmy to write such a terrible play but any man who would finance such an outrage should be tarred and feathered.
It's an outrage.
What an outrage, why haven't my courtiers reported that?
How can you let that outrage happen?
What an outrage!

News and current affairs

Other IMF accounting practices, including how the capital expenditures of government-owned enterprises are treated, are also causing outrage.
More outrage around the world at American double standards.
If a fair division is not received, it elicits cries of outrage and hurled food by the wronged partner.
Indeed, when the Chinese military secretly and recklessly fired a land-based missile into outer space in mid-January and shattered one of China's aging satellites, the government caused outrage from London to Tokyo to Washington.
I was certain that when Americans knew what was being done in their name, they would react with horror and outrage.
Some of these challenges might cause outrage (that, after all, often is the point).
After all, not only moral outrage but calculated self-interest led them on September 12 th to invoke, for the first time, Article V of the NATO Treaty.
No doubt, countries to which these measures are applied will express outrage.
The Commission expresses outrage, but France is skilled at challenging the EU's rules of common behavior.
True, genocide has become a magic word, and people think that its mere evocation triggers the strong outrage of the world community and perforce sets in motion UN intervention.
Though moral outrage is important, it is not enough when it comes to crafting policy.
We have to hope that the same kind of outcome will emerge from the financial scandals that have produced public outrage analogous to that directed at the food industries in Upton Sinclair's day.
As was the case then, public outrage today is at a level that might well overwhelm the lobbying efforts of entrenched interests.
There is not much that public outrage can do about the behavior of Iranian mullahs or Syrian thugs.
Outrage about a professor who is not to be messed with is not the best way to discuss the plight of countless, poor, anonymous people, whom most of us find it too easy to ignore.
If they are not expressing their outrage over the injustice of it all, it can only be because they are inadequately informed.
Instead, the world is responding to graphic images of unspeakable brutality - torture by the regime or executions carried out by the opposition - with sterile shows of outrage.
At noon on July 5, Colombians throughout the country poured into the streets to show their outrage at the news that 11 provincial politicians had been killed while being held by leftist rebels.
Though the American author did not hire British counsel and did not try to defend herself in the UK, she was ordered to pay damages, arousing outrage in the United States.
None has reversed course, and any hint that governments might reassert political control over interest rates, as happened recently in India, are met with alarm in financial markets and outrage among economists.
Angry youngsters even founded Web sites such as anti-cnn.com to express their outrage.
In the end, Chinese outrage at North Korea usually gives way to refusal to play any part in the demise of its neighbor and one-time ally.
In internet forums and chat rooms, Chinese citizens continued to express their outrage about what they saw as a government cover up.
In the midst of the protests, Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar sparked further outrage by suggesting that women carry chili powder to deter would-be rapists.
As the deal was intended to avoid a nuclear standoff with Iran, why was there so much outrage in the US and the West?
None of these events sparked anything remotely resembling the public outrage of recent weeks.

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