fury
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(fyʊr'ē) 
n., pl., -ries.
n., pl., -ries.
- Violent anger; rage. See synonyms at anger.
- Violent, uncontrolled action; turbulence.
- Furies Greek & Roman Mythology. The three terrible winged goddesses with serpentine hair, Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone, who pursue and punish doers of unavenged crimes.
- A woman regarded as angry or spiteful.
[Middle English furie, from Old French, from Latin furia, from furere, to rage.]
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Group of Greco-Roman goddesses of vengeance. The Furies lived in the underworld and ascended to earth to pursue the wicked. They were known to the Greeks as the Erinyes, but those who feared to speak their name often called them by euphemisms such as Eumenides (Kind Ones). According to Hesiod, they were daughters of Gaea, the earth goddess. Aeschylus made them the terrifying chorus of his tragedy Eumenides, and Euripides was the first to speak of them as three in number.
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Roget's Thesaurus:
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fury
noun
- Violent or unrestrained anger: furor, irateness, ire, rage, wrath, wrathfulness. See feelings.
- Exceptionally great concentration, power, or force, especially in activity: depth (often used in plural), ferociousness, ferocity, fierceness, intensity, pitch, severity, vehemence, vehemency, violence. See big/small/amount, strong/weak.
- A person, traditionally a woman, who persistently nags or criticizes: fishwife, harpy, scold, shrew, termagant, virago, vixen. Informal battle-ax. See praise/blame.
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Definition: anger, wrath
Antonyms: calm, happiness, mildness, peace
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Furies (Gk. Erīny̆ğs), also known by the propitiatory names of Eumğnidğs, ‘kindly ones’, and Semnai, ‘the holy ones’, in Greek myth, spirits of punishment avenging without pity wrongs done to kindred and especially murder within the family. According to Hesiod they were the daughters of Gaia (Earth), conceived from the drops of blood spilt when Cronus castrated his father Uranus (Heaven), i.e. they were born of a crime committed by a son against a father. Authorities differ as to their parentage, but they are always represented as more ancient than the Olympian gods and not under the rule of Zeus, although they honour him. They also punished perjurers and those who had violated the laws of hospitality and supplication, and came to assume the character of goddesses who punish crimes after death and seldom appear on earth. They were represented as carrying torches and scourges, and wreathed with snakes. Later writers make them three in number with the names Tīsiphŏnē, Megaera, and Allecto. Their cult was rare, but they had a sanctuary at the foot of the Acropolis.
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Furies
Furies or Erinyes (ērĭn'ē-ēz), in Greek and Roman religion and mythology, three daughters of Mother Earth, conceived from the blood of Uranus, when Kronos castrated him. They were powerful divinities that personified conscience and punished crimes against kindred blood, especially matricide. They were usually represented as winged women with serpent hair. Their names were Megaera [jealous], Tisiphone [blood avenger], and Alecto [unceasing in pursuit]. When called upon to act, they hounded their victims until they died in a "furor" of madness or torment. In the myth of Orestes they appear as Clytemnestra's agents of revenge. After Athena absolved Orestes of guilt in the murder of his mother, she gave the Furies a grotto at Athens where they received sacrifices and libations, and became euphemistically known as the Eumenides [kindly ones].
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See Aeschylus' play, The Eumenides.
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IN BRIEF: n. - The property of being wild or turbulent; A feeling of intense anger; State of violent mental agitation.
Abused patience turns to fury.
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- Violent Events - fury: anger, rage, or wrath
- Violent Persons - fury: raging, vengeful person
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Fury
Dansk (Danish)
n. - raseri, furie, i rasende fart
Nederlands (Dutch)
woede, razernij, wraakgodin (uit Griekse mythologie), kwaadaardig persoon (m.n. vrouw), knagende wroeging
Français (French)
n. - fureur, furie, (fig) violence, accès, (fig) (une) furie, (Mythol) Les Furies (npl)
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μανία, φρένιασμα, λύσσα, μαινάδα, (μυθολ.) Ερινύα
Italiano (Italian)
le Furie, furore
Português (Portuguese)
n. - fúria (f)
Русский (Russian)
ярость, бешенство, фурия
Español (Spanish)
n. - Furia, cólera, ira, furor
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - raseri, furie
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
愤怒, 狂怒的人, 狂暴
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 憤怒, 狂怒的人, 狂暴
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 격분, 맹렬함, 격심함, 복수의 세 여신 중 하나, 포악한 사람
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 憤激, 狂暴, 復讐の女神, 怨霊, 激情
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) غضب شديد , اهتياج
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - חימה, זעם, סערה, כעסנית, התרגשות
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