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furious

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" [syn: ferocious , fierce , savage ] marked by extreme anger; "the enraged bull attached"; "furious about the accident"; "a furious scowl"; "infuriated ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Furious is an Australian play script by Michael Gow , first performed in 1991. The play centers on family secrets, betrayal, and the exploration of the age of consent for homosexual males. Of the play, the Sydney Morning Herald praised it saying "its intensity ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "impetuous, unrestrained," from Old French furios , furieus "furious, enraged, livid" (14c., Modern French furieux ), from Latin furiosus "full of rage, mad," from furia "rage, passion, fury" (see fury ). Furioso , from the Italian form of the ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a furious row ▪ She left the party after a furious row with her boyfriend. a furious/fierce argument ▪ As soon as she had gone a furious argument broke out. an angry/furious expression ▪ Her angry expression turned ...

Usage examples of furious.

The conflict, grown beyond the scope of original plans, had become nothing less than a fratricidal war between the young king and the Count of Poitou for the succession to the Angevin empire, a ghastly struggle in which Henry was obliged to take a living share, abetting first one and then the other of his furious sons.

Then all the satisfaction she had derived from what she had heard Madame Bourdieu say departed, and she went off furious and ashamed, as if soiled and threatened by all the vague abominations which she had for some time felt around her, without knowing, however, whence came the little chill which made her shudder as with dread.

We sat there, furious and not looking at each other, as the acceleration was slowly throttled back and the capsule moved away from the disk to resume its free-flight position two hundred and fifty meters behind it.

A furious fire was opened on the advancing troops, who were clearly visible in the light of a full moon.

I have been dutifull, and you so loving and kinde as to save me from the jaws of death, help me now to protect my honour, convey me hence, let me not live here to please his appetite, but cast me to some unknown place, where like an Anchoret I may live from all the World, and never more to see the face of Man, for in that name all horrour strikes my Senses, and makes my Soul like to some furious thing, so affrighted it hath been.

Pandaras shouted and ran, flinging himself in a furious panic through the black mesh curtains which divided the apse from the main part of the temple.

His hatred, like a powerless though furious wave, was broken against the strong ascendancy which Mercedes exercised over him.

Their acquiescence or repentance disguised, above four years, the blackest intention of revenge, till the day of a procession, when a furious band of conspirators dispersed the unarmed multitude, and assaulted with blows and wounds the sacred person of the pope.

But hee returning against them with furious force, pryed with his eyes, on whom hee might first assayle with his tuskes : Lepolemus strooke the beast first on the backe with his hunting staffe.

He was, however, in his heart, extremely averse to these furious measures.

The falcon bated again, thrashing furious wings, and Romilly struggled to maintain the sense of herself, not merging into the terror and fury of the angry bird, at the same time trying to send out waves of calm.

Lavinia, furious that her mother should think she would so bemean herself.

Jabba, furious, bashed Bib across the face and sent him reeling to the floor.

We crackle with cancers, we fizz with synergisms, under the furious and birdless sky.

Medini came to see me, furious at not having been asked to join the party, while I congratulated myself on my absence.