Outrage

Definition: Outrage

Outrage

Noun

1. A feeling of righteous anger.

2. A wantonly cruel act.

3. A disgraceful event.

4. The act of scandalizing.

Verb

1. Strike with disgust or revulsion; "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends".

2. Violate the sacred character of a place, such as a graveyard.

3. Assault sexually; force to have sex.

4. Make furious.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "outrage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Outrage \Out"rage\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Outragen; Outraging.]. (references)

Synonyms: Outrage

Deterioration

Impairment, inquination, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath; perversion,impairment, inquination, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath; perversion, prostitution, vitiation, discoloration, oxidation, pollution, defoedation, poisoning, venenation, leaven, contamination, canker, corruption, adulteration, alloy.

Disrespect

Vilipendency, vilification, contumely, affront, dishonor, insult, indignity, outrage, discourtesy; practical joking; scurrility, scoffing, sibilance, hissing, sibilation; irrision; derision; mockery; irony; (ridicule); sarcasm.

Dishonor, desecrate; insult, affront, outrage.

Evil

Outrage, wrong, injury, foul play; bad turn, ill turn; disservice, spoliation; grievance, crying evil.

Guilt

Enormity, atrocity, outrage; deadly sin, mortal sin; "deed without a name".

Inexpedience

Maltreat, abuse; ill-use, ill-treat; buffet, bruise, scratch, maul; smite; (scourge); do violence, do harm, do a mischief; stab, pierce, outrage.

Ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage; misusage; injury; (damage); knockout drops.

Malevolence

Ill turn, bad turn; affront; (disrespect); outrage, atrocity; ill usage; intolerance, persecution; tender mercies; " unkindest cut of all".

Hurt; (physical pain); annoy; injure., harm, wrong; do harm to, do an ill office to; outrage; disoblige, malign, plant a thorn in the breast.

Resentment

Affront, provocation, offense; indignity; (insult); grudge, crow to pluck, bone to pick, sore subject, casus belli; ill turn, outrage.

Violence

Severity; ferocity, rage, fury; exacerbation, exasperation, malignity; fit, paroxysm; orgasm, climax, aphrodisia; force, brute force; outrage; coup de main; strain, shock, shog; spasm, convulsion, throe; hysterics, passion; (state of excitability).

Crosswords: Outrage

French (abuse, enormity, indignity, insult, outrage).

My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters and you don't like my tie. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

They will all suffer for this outrage. (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; writing credit: George Lucas; Lawrence Kasdan)

10 dollars? This is an outrage! (A Night at the Opera; writing credit: James Kevin McGuinness; George S. Kaufman)

This is an outrage! You are a disgrace to your Phylum, Order, Class, Genus and Spe (James and the Giant Peach; writing credit: Karey Kirkpatrick)

Outrage (1973)

The Outrage (1964)

Outrage (1950)

The Outrage (1915)

Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge (1999)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Passion! Betrayal! Outrage! Revenge!: A Luann Book (reference)

• The Living Theatre: Art, Exile, and Outrage (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Outrage (reference)

• Outrage! (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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This is a cartoon from Harper's Weekly circa 1890. It shows an office worker, whose smoking cigar is drooping from his mouth, reading a sign on the wall: "No Smoking In Offices During Office Hours". The caption reads: "another civic-service outrage. Less smoke and more fire". Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

"Another Civil-Service Outrage." : Less Smoke and More Fire. / Thomas Nast. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

And then, to prevent farther outrage and indignation, changed the subject directly

The way he went after that plump sister in the lace tucker, was an outrage on the credulity of human nature

The war of 1823, an outrage on the generous Spanish nation, was, at the same time, an outrage on the French Revolution

O, preposterous And frantic outrage, end thy damned spleen, Or let me die, to look on death no more

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Civil Liberties

Tunisia

The demonstration was designed to express national outrage at the brief occupation of the Paris office of the Tunisian National Tourist Bureau by the French NGO RSF. The Paris protest, led by RSF secretary general Robert Menard, called on the Tunisian Government to release activist Sihem Bensedrine. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

Additional offenses that can be tried under the Anti-Terrorist Act include acts to outrage religious feelings; efforts to "wage war against the state;" conspiracy; acts committed in abetting an offense; and kidnaping of or abduction to confine a person. (references)

Iran

A November 1995 law criminalized dissent and applied the death penalty to offenses such as "attempts against the security of the State, outrage against high-ranking Iranian officials, and insults against the memory of Imam Khomeini and against the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic." U.N. representatives, including the UNSR, and independent human rights organizations, continue to note the absence of procedural safeguards in criminal trials. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "outrage": an outrage upon decency ♦ an outrage upon justice ♦ outrage against humanity ♦ outrage against morals ♦ train outrage. Additional references.

Beginning with "outrage": outrage-at-intrusion, outrage-monger.

Ending with "outrage": mock-outrage, tears-and-outrage.

Albanian

ofendoj (damnify, grieve, injure, insult, mortify, offend, revile), veprim i dhunshëm, shkelje (breaking, crushing, delinquency, encroachment, impingement, infraction, infringement, invasion, irregularity, lap, obtrusion, offence, overlap, perambulation, squelcher, stamping, transgression, trespass, violation), shkel (backslide, break, contravene, disobey, encroach, entrench, evade, go back, impinge, infringe, make inroads into, muscle in, obtrude, offend, outrun, override, perambulate, poach, press, pull, step, trample, trample down, trample on, transgress, tread, tread on, trouble), nëpërkëmbje, mizori (atrocity, barbarism, cruelty, devilry, deviltry, diabolism, ferocity, inhumanity), fyej (affront, aggrieve, damnify, deal, desecrate, disoblige, displease, grieve, injure, insult, offend, pique, revile, trespass, vex, vituperate), dhunoj (contravene, infringe, invade, rape, violate), dhunë (force, forcing, viciousness, violence), cenoj (harm, impinge, offend, prejudice, violate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فعل فاضح, ‏فضيحة (disgrace, furor, nasty business, scandal, stink), ‏فظاعة (atrocity, horribleness, horridness, ugliness), ‏قزيعة (obscenity), ‏غضب (aggravate, anger, annoy, be angry, be irritated, chafe, crab, dander, displease, embitter, enrage, exasperate, exasperation, fire, flounce, fret, fume, gall, get on his nerves, get smb.'s goat, go mad, grumpiness, harrow, heat, incense, indignation, inflame, infuriate, irascibility, ire, irritate, irritation, itch, jitter, lose one's shirt, mad, madden, miff, nettle, offend, outcry, peeve, pet, pique, pout, provoke, rage, resentment, rile, rough, ruffle, seethe, soreness, sour, spite, spleen, twit, vex), ‏عمل عنيف, ‏عار (bare, black eye, denuded, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, humiliation, ignominy, mortification, naked, nude, obloquy, reflection, reflexion, reproach, scandal, shame, stark naked, starkers, taint, unclad, uncovered), ‏إهانة خطيرة (shaking), ‏إنتهك (break, contravene, encroach, invade, offend, profane, traduce, transgress, trespass), ‏إنتهاك حرمة (trespass), ‏إساءة (hurt, offence), ‏أهان (abase oneself, affront, debase, degrade, dishonor, dishonour, flout, give offence, give offense, injure, insult, malign, offend, oppress, revile, slap, slight, take offence, take offense), ‏أثار (aggravate, arouse, awaken, bestir, burn, chafe, elicit, engage, evoke, exacerbate, exalt, excite, fan, ferment, flurry, foment, fray, frazzle, fret, fuss, gall, get, gravel, gripe, heat, impassion, inflame, infuriate, inspire, instigate, irritate, itch, jog, jostle, kindle, madden, move, pique, remnant, rile, rouse, sour, stimulate, switch on, tease, thrill, touch off, transport, trigger, trouble, turn on, unsettle, urge, vex, whet, whip, work), ‏شتيمة (abuse, insult, slur, swearword). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обида (affront, cut, dishonor, dishonour, hurt, indignity, injury, insult, offence, offense, resentment, slight, slur, umbrage, wound, wrong), похитявам (abduct, kidnap, rape, ravish), похищение (abduction, invasion, kidnapping, rape, ravishment), престъпление (crime, delict, delinquency, fact, foul play, iniquity, misdeed, offence, transgression, wrongdoing), престъпвам (outstep, overstep, poach, transgress, trespass, violate), безчинство, изнасилване (assault, defloration, forcing, rape, ravishment, violation), насилие (coercion, force, heat, violence), грубо нарушение на закона, обиждам (abuse, affront, aggrieve, belabor, belabour, dishonor, dishonour, give offense, give umbrage, huff, hurt, injure, insult, inveigh, offend, slight, spite, vituperate, wrong), обезчестявам (defile, deflower, dishonor, dishonour, ruin), оскърбление (abuse, affront, contumely, flout, galling, hurt, insult, knock, offence), оскърбявам (abuse, affront, huff, insult, offend), възмущение (disgust, dudgeon, indignation, resentment, wrath), гневен изблик, нарушавам (disobey, forswear, infringe, intrench, invade, outstep, poach, trouble, violate). (various references)

Chinese 

暴行 (atrocity, savage act). (various references)

Czech

znásilnit (rape, ravish, violate), urážka (affront, brickbat, contumely, injury, insult, offence, violence), rozhořèení (grievance, indignation), potupit (dishonor, dishonour), potupa (affront, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, humiliation, ignominy, indignity), hrubì urazit. (various references)

Dutch

wandaad. (various references)

Esperanto

malbonfaro. (various references)

Farsi 

هتک حرمت (Irreverence), غضب (Anger, Gouge, Huff, Ire, Outburst, Rage, Temper, Wrath), تخطی (Trepass), سخت عصبانی شدن , ازجادررفتن (Transport), بی حرمت ساختن (Violate), بی عدالتی کردن . (various references)

Finnish

väkivallanteko (act of violence), tihutyö (evil deed), ilkivalta (disorderly conduct, mischief), ilkityö (evil deed), ilkiteko (evil deed). (various references)

French

outrage. (various references)

German

Gewalttat (act of violence), Gewalttätikeit, Freveltat (heinous deed). (various references)

Greek 

προσβολή (affront, assault, attack, blow, derogation, indignity, insult, invective, mortification, offence, slur, stroke, umbrage). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפ�'וע קשות, שערורי�" (abomination, disgrace, flagrancy, scandal, stink, villainy), עלבון חמור, � בל�" (obscenity, villainy, wicked woman, wickness). (various references)

Hungarian

merénylet (assassination, attempt), gyalázat (dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, shame, slur, turpitude). (various references)

Indonesian

perkosaan (rape), pencabulan (violation), mencemari (defile, desecrate, soil). (various references)

Italian

oltreggiare, violare (break, defile, impinge, infringe, rape, violate), indignazione (indignation, warmth), attentato (assault, attempt), atrocit� (atrocity). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

狼藉 (confusion, disorder, riot, violence), 暴虐 (atrocity, cruel, tyranny), 暴行 (act of violence, assault). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぼうぎゃく (atrocity, cruel, tyranny), ぼう�"う (act of violence, assault, steel rod, urinary bladder), ろうぜき (confusion, disorder, riot, violence). (various references)

Manx

jiarg-chorree (extreme anger, furious, raging, very angry), jannoo drogh-ghellal er, farg (anger, choler, fierceness, fury, wrath), drogh-ghellal (bad treatment, ill usage, ill-treat, maltreat, outrageous). (various references)

Pig Latin

outrageay.(various references)

Portuguese

ofensa (delict, dishonor, dishonour, grievance, harm, injury, insult, mischief, offence, offense, peccancy, peeve, transgression, trespass, umbrage, wound, wrong), ofender (abuse, affront, aggrieve, bespatter, bruise, despite, dishonor, dishonour, displease, grieve, harm, huff, hurt, injure, insult, miscall, offend, shock, stab), ultraje (despite, insult, violence), ultrajar (abuse, assault, insult, revile, violate), maltratar violentamente, insultar (abuse, affront, blackguard, clapperclaw, fly in the face of, insult, revile, vituperate), injuriar (abuse, attack, insult, inveigh, knock about, knock around, miscall, offend, revile, slander, stab, vituperate), injúria (abuse, bruise, contumely, despite, insult, invective, mischief, railing, violence, vituperation, wrong), atentado (assault), afronta (affront, dishonor, dishonour, humiliation, indignity, insult, snub, take-down, wrong). (various references)

Romanian

viola (assault, break, force, infringe, infringe on, infringe upon, rape, ravish, violate), ultraj (abuse, insult), ultragia (abuse, insult), silui (abuse, force, rape, violate), jignire gravã, jigni grav, crimã odioasã, crimã (crime, delinquency, felony, homicide, maleficence, misdeed, murder, offence, removal, sin), crima împotriva, comite o crimã faţã de, atrocitate (atrociousness, atrocity), afront (affront, insult), încãlcare grosolanã. (various references)

Russian 

возмущать возмущение, оскорбление (abuse, affront, contumely, indignity, injury, insult, obloquy, offence, offense, opprobrium, wound), оскорбить (cause offence, give offence, give offence to), насиловать (rape, raped, ravish, violate), насилие (assault, brute force, force, rapine, violation, violence), нарушение закона, надругаться (treat outrageously), надругательство, беззаконие (anomie, anomy, iniquity, lawlessness), преступать закон. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uvrediti (affront, give offense, hurt, insult, offend, pique), uvreda (affront, assault, contumely, dudgeon, grievance, hurt, indignity, insult, knock, offence, offense, pique, umbrage, wound), sramota (attaint, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, infamy, opprobrium, shame), sramno postupiti, silovati (rape, ravish, violate), silovanje (rape). (various references)

Spanish

violentar (force, torture), violar tensamente (assault, contravene, infringe, overset, transgress), ultrajar (abuse, insult, offend), indignidad (indignity), escándalo (astonishment, commotion, disgrace, furor, furore, fuss, noise, notoriety, row, scandal, scene, sense of shock, uproar), desmán (excess), desafuero (sacrilege, sacrileges), atropello (accident, disregard), atropellar (be run down, collide, knock down, knock over, mob, push around, run, run down, run over, walk over), atrocidad (atrociousness, atrocity, awfulness, viciousness, vicissitude), atentado (assault, attempt, cautious, decency). (various references)

Swedish

nidingsdåd (infamy), kränkning (indignity, infraction, infringement, injury, offence, offense, violation), kränka (aggrieve, derogate from, infringe, injure, violate, wrong). (various references)

Turkish

zorlamak (be urgent with smb., bludgeon, bully, clamor down, clamour down, coerce, compel, constrain, cow smb. into, cozen, do violence to, drag in, drive, edge on, enforce, exact, force, impel, impose, impress, lean upon, obligate, press, press-gang smb. into doing smth., pressure, push, push smb. for, railroad, railroad into doing, stampede, strain, stretch, subdue, sweat, twist smb.'s arm, urge, worry, wrest), zorbalık (despotism, extortion, fist law, headiness, overbearance, rough stuff, ruffianism, tyranny, violence), zedelemek (bruise, contuse, injure), yasa dışı hareket, tecâvüz etmek (abuse, aggress, assault, attack, break into, encroach, encroach on, entrench upon, impinge, infringe, interfere with, intrude, overstep, rape, ravish, shame, trench on, trench upon, trespass, violate), tecâvüz (aggression, an outrage upon decency, assault, breaking in, desecration, encroachment, incursion, infraction, infringement, inroad, intrusion, invasion, offence, offense, rape, trespass, violence), rezalet (disgrace, ignominy, indignity, infamousness, obloquy, opprobrium, outrageousness, ridiculous, rotten, scandal, scene, shambles, villainy), kötü davranmak (abuse, discriminate against smb., ill treat, maltreat, misdemean, mishandle, mistreat, ride rough over, rough, serve, snub, tramp down, use smb. ill), kırmak (bear down, blight, breach, break, break down, bust, chill, chop, crack, cut, dampen, discount, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, offend, pique, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, reduce, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, touch, vanquish), hakaret etmek (affront, defame, desecrate, give affront to, insult, revile, revile against smth., revile at smth., slight, vituperate), hakaret (affront, contempt, contumely, cuss word, defamation, epithet, hotfoot, indignity, insult, invective, opprobrium, revilement, slap, slap in the face, slight, slur, snub), çiğnemek (break, champ, chew, chump, contravene, crunch, infringe, masticate, override, run down, run over, squelch, stamp, swamp, tramp, trample, trample down, transgress, violate). (various references)

Ukrainian

чинити насильство, гвалтувати, глумитися (deride, scoff), обурливий випадок, образа (abuse, affront, contumely, dishonor, dishonour, dudgeon, grievance, grouch, indignity, injury, insult, obloquy, offence, offense, opprobrium, resentment, snub, umbrage, wound), ображати (abuse, affront, damnify, dishonor, dishonour, frump, huff, humiliate, injure, insult, offend, revile, umbrage), насильство (assault, coercion, rapine, violence), наруга, порушувати закон (offend, offend against), порушувати право, порушувати принципи. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự xúc phạm (hurt, offending, profanation), sự sỉ nhục sự vi phạm trắng trợn, sự l� m phương hại. (various references)

Welsh

cyflafan (massacre). (various references)

hybris. (various references)

ausi, facinora, facinore, facinoris, facinus, flagitii, flagitium, ultra, violabant, violabo, violabunt, violando, violans, violant, violare, violarent, violaretur, violassent, violasset, violasti, violata, violaverit, violaverunt, violavit. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "outrage": outraged, outrageous, outrageously, outrageousness, outrageousnesses, outrages. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Outrage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: botargo, Goutrage, Oatrigg, Oiteagan, Ostraea, outrag, outrager, outroge, outrule, outsage, outtage, Ouvrage. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: aerugo, garote, orgeat, outage, ragout, rugate.

-2 letters: argot, argue, auger, ergot, erugo, gator, grate, great, groat, grout, oater, orate, outer, outre, retag, rogue, rouge, route, rugae, targe, tegua, terga, togae, togue, urate.

-3 letters: aero, ager, ague, auto, ergo, euro, gate, gaur, gear, geta, goat, goer, gore, gout, grat, grot, grue, guar, ogre, rage.

+1 letter: outargue, outglare, outraged, outrages, outrange, ragouted, tutorage.

+2 letters: augmentor, corrugate, entourage, objurgate, outargued, outargues, outcharge, outglared, outglares, outranged, outranges, regulator, stegosaur, subrogate, surrogate, trialogue, tutorages.

+3 letters: augmentors, cataloguer, corrugated, corrugates, entourages, expurgator, goatsucker, largemouth, objurgated, objurgates, outbragged, outcharged, outcharges, outdragged, outearning, outgeneral, outhearing, outrageous, outreading, outwearing, promulgate, regulation, regulators, regulatory, stegosaurs, subrogated, subrogates, surrogated, surrogates, travelogue, trialogues, urogenital.