The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outrage \Out"rage\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Outragen; p. pr. & vb. n. Outraging.] [F. outrager. See Outrage, n.]
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To commit outrage upon; to subject to outrage; to treat with violence or excessive abuse.
Base and insolent minds outrage men when they have hope of doing it without a return.
--Atterbury.This interview outrages all decency.
--Broome. Specifically, to violate; to commit an indecent assault upon (a female).
To cause to become very angry; as, the burning of the flag outraged the small conservative town.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of outrage English)
Usage examples of "outraging".
Foul face after face T'sais saw, and each burnt her brain until she thought she must scream and die — visages of leering eye, bulbed cheek, lunatic body, black faces of spiked nose, expressions outraging thought, writhing, hopping, crawling, the spew of the demon-lands.
There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.
After outraging the president, infuriating the chief of staff, having a profound attack of sadness, and continuing to hide my most urgent emotions from the only woman who I wanted to know them, it seemed to me that I wasn't living my life very well.
Compson had one flouting and outraging all Southern principles of purity and womanhood that our husbands had died for, though Aunt Louisa hoped again that Mrs.