OUTRAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outrage mean? 

• OUTRAGE (noun)
  The noun OUTRAGE has 4 senses:

1. a feeling of righteous anger

2. a wantonly cruel act

3. a disgraceful event

4. the act of scandalizing

  Familiarity information: OUTRAGE used as a noun is uncommon.

• OUTRAGE (verb)
  The verb OUTRAGE has 3 senses:

1. strike with disgust or revulsion

2. violate the sacred character of a place or language

3. force (someone) to have sex against their will

  Familiarity information: OUTRAGE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTRAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of righteous anger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

indignation; outrage

Hypernyms ("outrage" is a kind of...):

anger; choler; ire (a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "outrage"):

dudgeon; high dudgeon (a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase 'in high dudgeon'))

Derivation:

outrage (strike with disgust or revulsion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A wantonly cruel act

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("outrage" is a kind of...):

atrocity; inhumanity (an act of atrocious cruelty)

Derivation:

outrage (force (someone) to have sex against their will)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A disgraceful event

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

outrage; scandal

Hypernyms ("outrage" is a kind of...):

trouble (an event causing distress or pain)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "outrage"):

skeleton; skeleton in the closet; skeleton in the cupboard (a scandal that is kept secret)

Instance hyponyms:

Teapot Dome; Teapot Dome scandal (a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration)

Watergate; Watergate scandal (a political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974)

Derivation:

outrage (strike with disgust or revulsion)

outrageous (grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of scandalizing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

outrage; scandalisation; scandalization

Hypernyms ("outrage" is a kind of...):

affront; insult (a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect)

Derivation:

outrage (strike with disgust or revulsion)

• OUTRAGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they outrage    ... he / she / it outrages   
Past simple: outraged   
Past participle: outraged   
-ing form: outraging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strike with disgust or revulsion

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

appal; appall; offend; outrage; scandalise; scandalize; shock

Context example:

The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends

Hypernyms (to "outrage" is one way to...):

churn up; disgust; nauseate; revolt; sicken (cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

The bad news will outrage him
The performance is likely to outrage Sue

Derivation:

outrage (the act of scandalizing)

outrage (a disgraceful event)

outrage (a feeling of righteous anger)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Violate the sacred character of a place or language

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

desecrate; outrage; profane; violate

Context example:

profane the name of God

Hypernyms (to "outrage" is one way to...):

assail; assault; attack; set on (attack someone physically or emotionally)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Force (someone) to have sex against their will

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

assault; dishonor; dishonour; outrage; rape; ravish; violate

Context example:

The woman was raped on her way home at night

Hypernyms (to "outrage" is one way to...):

assail; assault; attack; set on (attack someone physically or emotionally)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "outrage"):

gang-rape (rape (someone) successively with several attackers)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

outrage (a wantonly cruel act)

 Context examples 

"Yes, but you won't do it," answered Laurie, who wished to make up, but felt that his outraged dignity must be appeased first.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He faced the boy, bristling and snarling, his sense of justice outraged.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Petty thefts, wanton assaults, purposeless outrage—to the man who held the clue all could be worked into one connected whole.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have a duty to do in protecting her grave from outrage; and, by God, I shall do it!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I do not wish to revive the memory of past differences, or of past outrages.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And then, to prevent farther outrage and indignation, changed the subject directly.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And so, under pretence of softening the previous outrage, of stroking and soothing me into placidity, you stick a sly penknife under my ear!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was vexed with him, and as she walked beside him she had a vague feeling of outrage.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

My daily vows rose for revenge—a deep and deadly revenge, such as would alone compensate for the outrages and anguish I had endured.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Those men are cursing because their desires have been outraged.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)