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1. WordNet® 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]

2. 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.
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            Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired.
                                                  --Sir P.
                                                  Sidney.
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   2. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied
      to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity;
      violence. "Fury of the wind." --Shak.
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            I do oppose my patience to his fury.  --Shak.
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   3. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto,
      and Meg[ae]ra; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
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            The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice,
            and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path
            would punish him.                     --Emerson.
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   4. One of the Parc[ae], or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.]
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            Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,
            And slits the thin-spun life.         --Milton.
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   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.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fury \Fu"ry\, n. [L. fur.]
   A thief. [Obs.]
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         Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. --J.
                                                  Fleteher.
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4. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Fury
   as attributed to God, is a figurative expression for dispensing
   afflictive judgments (Lev. 26:28; Job 20:23; Isa. 63:3; Jer.
   4:4; Ezek. 5:13; Dan. 9:16; Zech. 8:2).
   

Thesaurus Results for fury:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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