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fury

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
ˈfjʊə.ɹi

Definitions

  1. Extreme anger.
  2. A thief.
  3. Extreme anger
  4. A female personification of vengeance.
  5. Strength or violence in action.
  6. Strength or violence in action
  7. An angry or malignant person.
  8. An angry or malignant person
  9. A thief

Equivalents

35 more languages
Češtinaběszuřivost
Danskraseri
Esperantofurio
Gaeilgeaonachas
Galegoasaño
עבריתזעם
Magyardüh
Bahasa Indonesiaangkara
Italianofuriafurore
Қазақ тіліқаһар
한국어忿
Latviešuniknums
Македонскибесјаростфурија
Nederlandsrazernij
Românăfuriemanie
ไทยโทสะ
Українськалютьсказярість

Examples

Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.”
The building of the railway in this notable beauty spot roused the great Victorian writer John Ruskin to fury.”
Small lightes are ſoone blown out, huge fires abide, / And with the winde in greater furie fret: / The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det / To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, / Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt.”
“I don't mean all of your friendsonly a small proportionwhich, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunchthe insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis,[…]!”
But have an eye to your plate , for there be Furies.”
““I don't mean all of your friendsonly a small proportionwhich, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunchthe insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis,[…]!””

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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