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outraging

outraging is the present participle and gerund of outrage.

Meaning of outrage

Verb

outrage (third-person singular simple present outrages, present participle outraging, simple past and past participle outraged)

  1. (transitive) To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
    • August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet
      Base and insolent minds […] outrage men when they have Hopes of doing it without a Return.
  2. (transitive) To inspire feelings of outrage in.
    • The senator's comments outraged the community.
  3. (archaic, transitive) To sexually violate; to rape.
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To rage in excess of.
    • Their will the tiger sucked, outraged the storm1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC

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Noun

outraging (plural outragings)

  1. (archaic) The committing of an outrage.
    • Many were the outragings and insultings of the Indians upon the English while Sir Edmund Andros was Governor.1689, Thomas Smith, diary

Forms of outraging

pluraloutragings

Questions about outraging

What does outraging mean?
Outraging means the committing of an outrage.
What is outraging the present participle and gerund of?
Outraging is the present participle and gerund of outrage.
What part of speech is outraging?
Outraging is a noun.
What is the plural of outraging?
The plural of outraging is outragings.

Words near outraging in the dictionary

  1. outragers
  2. outrages
  3. outrages of modesty
  4. outragest
  5. outrageth
  6. outraging
  7. outragings
  8. outragious
  9. outraise
  10. outraised
  11. outraises

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