fury
/icons/point.icon 怒り
anger: 怒りを表す一般語で通例Uだが, rage, furyは激しい怒りを示し, 不定冠詞を伴うこともある
e.g. He was in a rage a fury, ╳an anger.: 彼は激怒していた.
またrageはしばしば〘報道〙 で怒りによる暴力行為を表すときに用いられる
e.g. road rage: (交通渋滞などによる)ドライバーの激怒.
wrathは激怒を表す〘かたい〙 語
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noun (plural furies)
1. wild or violent anger:
«…に対する» (しばしば暴力を伴うほどの)激怒, 憤慨 «at, over» (!狂気に近いほどの怒り) ;
e.g. tears of fury and frustration
e.g. Rachel shouted, beside herself with fury.
(a fury) a surge of violent anger or other feeling:
〖時にa ～〗 (感情･行動などの)激しさ, 激烈, 狂暴; ｟文｠
e.g. in a fury, he lashed the horse on.
2. violence or energy displayed in natural phenomena or in someone's actions:
〖the ～〗 (悪天候などの)猛威
e.g. the fury of a gathering storm
e.g. she was paddling with a new fury.
3. (Fury) Greek Mythology a spirit of punishment, often represented as one of three goddesses who executed the curses pronounced upon criminals, tortured the guilty with stings of conscience, and inflicted famines and pestilences. The Furies were identified at an early date with the Eumenides.
〖the Furies; 複数扱い〗〘ギ神〙 フリアエ, 復讐の3女神
PHRASES
like fury
informal with great energy or effort:
e.g. she fought like fury in his arms.
ORIGIN
late Middle English: from Old French furie, from Latin furia, from furiosus ‘furious’, from furere ‘be mad, rage’.