fury

1. Violent anger; rage. See synonyms at anger.
2. Violent, uncontrolled action; turbulence.
3. Furies Greek & Roman Mythology. The three terrible winged goddesses with serpentine hair, Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone, who pursue and punish doers of unavenged crimes.
4. A woman regarded as angry or spiteful.

[Middle English furie, from Old French, from Latin furia, from furere, to rage.]

noun

1. Violent or unrestrained anger: furor, irateness, ire, rage, wrath, wrathfulness. See feelings.
2. 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.
3. A person, traditionally a woman, who persistently nags or criticizes: fishwife, harpy, scold, shrew, termagant, virago, vixen. Informal battle-ax. See praise/blame.

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.

In classical mythology, hideous female monsters who relentlessly pursued evildoers.

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)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Wut

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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