Definitions for Furies

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Furies fu·ry

Spelling: [fyoo r-ee]

IPA: /ˈfyʊər i/

Furies is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in Furies (efirsu).

Definitions for Furies

noun

1. unrestrained or violent anger, rage, passion, or the like:
2. violence; vehemence; fierceness:
3. Furies, Classical Mythology. minor female divinities: the daughters of Gaea who punished crimes at the instigation of the victims: known to the Greeks as the Erinyes or Eumenides and to the Romans as the Furiae or Dirae. Originally there were an indefinite number, but were later restricted to Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone.
4. a fierce and violent person, especially a woman:

Idioms

1. like fury, Informal. violently; intensely:

Origin of Furies

1325-75; Middle English Latin furia rage, equivalent to fur(ere) to be angry, rage + -ia -y²

Examples for Furies

And first he bellowed as a bull and then howled as a dog, for the furies, he said, did so.

I can think of many parts I should prefer playing to that of the furies.

Like the furies, the Cheneys stand for unreason and emotionalism.

But it turns out The furies of Maidan is not a figment of his imagination.

He looked as if he had known all the degradations and all the furies.

The Fates and the furies exchanged glances of astonishment and horror.

The furies were so dreaded that few dared so much as to name them.

Until the furies got hold of him he was a simple soul, content with simple things.

Indeed, it seemed as though all the furies had combined to vex me.

And when he had been judged and loosed, yet the furies left him not.