Thesaurus: fury

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1. n. A thief.
2. n. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
3. n. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
4. n. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
5. n. One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
6. n. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.
7. n. (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
8. n. a feeling of intense anger
9. n. state of violent mental agitation
10. n. the property of being wild or turbulent
11. A thief. [Obs.] Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. J. Fleteher. 1. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. "Fury of the wind." Shak. I do oppose my patience to his fury. Shak. 3. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra; the Erinyes or Eumenides. The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him. Emerson. 4. One of the Parcæ, or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.] Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin- spun life. Milton. 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.
12. A thief. [Obs.]Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. J. Fleteher.