Synonyms of outrage
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Another word for outrage is wrong. Other synonyms of outrage are atrocity, wickedness, depravity, infamy and iniquity.
Synonyms and similar words for outrage
nounAn excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
- depravityA particular depraved act or trait.
- wrongSomething that is immoral or not good.
- atrocityAn extremely cruel act; a horrid act of injustice.
- infamyA reprehensible occurrence or situation.
- iniquityAn act of great injustice or unfairness; a sinful or wicked act; an unconscionable deed.
- turpitudeAn act evident of such depravity.
- wickednessA wicked or sinful thing or act; morally bad or objectionable behaviour.
verbTo inspire feelings of outrage in.
- enrageTo fill with rage; to outrage; to provoke to frenzy; to make furious.
- inflameTo cause (someone, or their heart, mind, etc.) to feel strong desire or other feelings; to excite (someone) to great...
- provokeTo cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
- affront
- aggravate
- anger
- antagonizeTo work against; to oppose (especially to incite a reaction).
- awrathAnger; enrage.
- burn upTo anger; to annoy.
- cheese off slangTo annoy.
- cross
- embitter
- envenom
- gall
- get
- get to
- honk offTo annoy.
- incenseTo anger; to infuriate.
- infuriateTo make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.
- madden
- make angry
- nark Australia, UK
- offend
- put out
- rankle
- rileTo make angry.
- piss offTo annoy, anger.
- roil
- set offTo put into an angry mood; to start (a person) ranting or sulking, etc.
- steam
- tick off
- get one's back up
- get someone's dander upTo anger or annoy someone.
- get someone's goatTo annoy or infuriate someone.
- get someone's Irish upTo anger or annoy someone.
- make someone see red
- make someone's blood boilTo cause a person to feel angry or very annoyed, especially in situation in which one cannot fully display that feeling...
- put someone's back upSynonym of get someone's back up: to annoy someone.
- raise someone's hacklesTo annoy or anger someone.
- raise someone's shagTo anger or annoy someone.
- rattle someone's cage
- rub the wrong way
- ruffle some feathersTo cause a disturbance; to arouse resentment, anger, or concern.
- set up someone's birse ScotlandTo make someone angry.
verbTo sexually violate; to rape.
- abuseTo injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
- ravishTo rape.
- violateTo rape.
- dishonourTo violate or rape.
- forceTo violate (a woman); to rape.
- misuseTo rape (a woman); later more generally, to sexually abuse (someone).
- polluteTo violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonour.
- rape
- ravage slangTo rape.
- r-word euphemisticTo rape.
- scotch slangTo rape.
- turn out slangTo rape; to coerce an otherwise heterosexual individual into performing a homosexual role.
- grape euphemistic
- constuprate obsoleteTo rape, violate.
- defile obsoleteTo deprive (someone) of their sexual chastity or purity, often not consensually; to deflower, to rape.
- defoul obsoleteTo defile the chastity of; to debauch, to rape.
- oppress obsoleteTo sexually violate; to rape.
- viole obsoleteTo violate, especially to rape.
- vitiate archaicTo violate, to rape.
Meaning of outrage
- noun An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
- noun An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
- noun The resentful, indignant, or shocked anger aroused by such acts.
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