Definition of "outrage"

outrage

/ˈaʊt.ɹeɪd͡ʒ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural outrages
1. An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
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  There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]
  1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Tremarn Case‎
2. An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
3. The resentful, indignant, or shocked anger aroused by such acts.
4. (obsolete) A destructive rampage.
verb
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.
  Quotations
  Base and insolent minds […] outrage men when they have Hopes of doing it without a Return.
  August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet
  The interview […] outrages all the rules of decency.
  1725-1726, William Broome, Odyssey
2. (transitive) To inspire feelings of outrage in.
3. (archaic, transitive) To sexually violate; to rape.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To rage in excess of.
  Quotations
  Their will the tiger sucked, outraged the storm
  1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750

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