fury
fury Lexical Profile
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• noun
Wild, violent, or unrestrained anger.
"She struggled to contain her fury when she discovered that the historical documents had been deliberately destroyed."
Extreme strength, violence, or turbulence in action or natural phenomena (such as a storm, wind, or sea).
"The coastal lighthouse withstood the full fury of the winter gale without suffering structural damage."
In classical Greek and Roman mythology (usually capitalized and in the plural), one of three female chthonic deities of vengeance—Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone—who pursued and punished unavenged wrongdoers.
"In Aeschylus's tragic trilogy, Orestes is relentlessly pursued by the Furies after avenging his father's death."
• Rhymes for fury
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 14th century via Old French from Latin furia ('violent passion, rage, madness'), derived from the verb furere ('to rage, be mad'). In Roman mythology, the Furiae were chthonic goddesses of vengeance corresponding to the Greek Erinyes.