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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. a feeling of intense anger;
- Example: "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"
- Example: "his face turned red with rage"
[syn: fury, rage, madness]

2. state of violent mental agitation;
[syn: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria]

3. the property of being wild or turbulent;
- Example: "the storm's violence"
[syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness]

4. (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals;
[syn: Fury, Eumenides, Erinyes]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fury \Fu"ry\, n.; pl. Furies. [L. furia, fr. furere to rage: cf. F. furie. Cf. Furor.] 1. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. [1913 Webster] Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster] 2. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. "Fury of the wind." --Shak. [1913 Webster] I do oppose my patience to his fury. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Meg[ae]ra; the Erinyes or Eumenides. [1913 Webster] The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him. --Emerson. [1913 Webster] 4. One of the Parc[ae], or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.] [1913 Webster] Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 5. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant. Syn: Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage; vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness; frenzy. See Anger. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fury \Fu"ry\, n. [L. fur.] A thief. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. --J. Fleteher. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fury n 1: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury, rage, madness] 2: state of violent mental agitation [syn: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria] 3: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" [syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness] 4: (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals [syn: Fury, Eumenides, Erinyes]