Definitions for Fury

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Fury fu·ry

Spelling: [fyoo r-ee]

IPA: /ˈfyʊər i/

Fury is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in Fury (fruy).

Definitions for Fury

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 Fury

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

Examples for Fury

The rush and blows passed with the fury of a whirlwind, and the swiftness of lightning.

On I rushed with the rest, hatless, and as in a cloud of fury.

Photos: fury at the Ferguson Decision I had yet to be born to observe the events of Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965.

Head mistress Jean Harris is the ultimate proof of “Hell Hath No fury like a Woman Scorned.”

His own revolted town of Mantes was the first object of his fury.

He walked down the stairs and into the street in a state of fury.

Photos: fury at the Ferguson Decision The fight for a fair justice system has gone far beyond Ferguson.

And you seized his cane in a fury, and broke it in returning the blow.

The song is about rage and fury and passion, and I had a lot of pain that I wanted to release.

Photos: fury at the Ferguson Verdict If only those gossips and busybodies on Twitter had kept their mouths shut.