Definition of Fury

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Definition of Fury

Fury

A thief.

Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.

Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.

pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.

One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.

A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.

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Fury Quotations

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
Frank Sinatra

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
Davy Crockett

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
Dick Gregory

Fury itself supplies arms.
Virgil

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Joseph Addison

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve

The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.
Erich Maria Remarque

Fury Translations

fury in French is furie
fury in German is Furie
fury in Latin is rabies
fury in Norwegian is raseri, furie

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