Definition of outrage

"outrage" in the noun sense

1. indignation, outrage

a feeling of righteous anger

2. outrage

a wantonly cruel act

3. scandal, outrage

a disgraceful event

4. scandalization, scandalisation, outrage

the act of scandalizing

"outrage" in the verb sense

1. shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appal, appall, outrage

strike with disgust or revulsion

"The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends"

2. desecrate, profane, outrage, violate

violate the sacred character of a place or language

"desecrate a cemetery"

"violate the sanctity of the church"

"profane the name of God"

3. rape, ravish, violate, assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage

force (someone) to have sex against their will

"The woman was raped on her way home at night"

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Quotations for outrage

When the searching eye of heaven is hid
Behind the globe, and lights the lower world,
Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen,
In murthers and in outrage boldly here. [ William Shakespeare ]

The immortal mind, superior to his fate.
Amid the outrage of external things,
Firm as the solid base of this great world.
Rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds!
Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on!
Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky!
Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire
Be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene,
The unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck;
And ever stronger as the storms advance,
Firm through the closing ruin holds his way,
When nature calls him to the destined goal. [ Akenside ]

Words, however, are things; and the man who accords
To his language the license to outrage his soul
Is controlled by the words he disdains to control. [ Lord Lytton ]

My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. [ Cowper ]

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law of the world, and are afraid of the world's tongue. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow. So arbitrary are these transient laws. [ Dumas ]

The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance. [ Seneca ]

outrage in Scrabble®

The word outrage is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters outrage:

OUTRAGE
(82 = 32 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

outrage

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word outrage

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In outrage

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OUTRAGE
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outrage in Words With Friends™

The word outrage is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters outrage:

OUTRAGE
(89 = 54 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

outrage

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word outrage

OUTRAGE
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In outrage

OUTRAGE
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OUTRAGE
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OUTRAGE
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OUTRAGE
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Words containing the sequence outrage

Words that start with outrage (6 words)

Words with outrage in them (2 words)

Words that end with outrage (1 word)

Word Growth involving outrage

Shorter words in outrage

out

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ag rag rage

Longer words containing outrage

outraged

outrageous outrageously

outrageous outrageousness

outrageous ultraoutrageous

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