outrage
/ˈaʊt.ɹeɪd͡ʒ/ verb C2- To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse. · 1725-1726, William Broome, Odyssey The interview […] outrages all the rules of decency.
- To inspire feelings of outrage in. · The senator's comments outraged the community.
He/she/it outrages · Past outraged · Past participle outraged · -ing form outraging
Verb forms
- Base form
- outrage
- He/she/it
- outrages
- Past
- outraged
- Past participle
- outraged
- -ing form
- outraging
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On one occasion he actually seized her in his arms and embraced her—an outrage which caused his own secretary to reproach him for his unmanly conduct.’
She had an odd, newly awakened consciousness under all her outraged dignity that the half-shy, half-eager expression in Gilbert’s hazel eyes was something that was very good to see.
Petty thefts, wanton assaults, purposeless outrage—to the man who held the clue all could be worked into one connected whole.
A man who had read deeply about Napoleon, or who had possibly received some hereditary family injury through the great war, might conceivably form such an idée fixe and under its influence be capable of any fantastic outrage.”
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