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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An act of extreme violence or viciousness.
  2. n. An act grossly offensive to decency, morality, or good taste.
  3. n. A deplorable insult.
  4. n. Resentful anger aroused by a violent or offensive act.
  5. v. To offend grossly against (standards of decency or morality); commit an outrage on.
  6. v. To produce anger or resentment in: Incompetence outraged him. See Synonyms at offend.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A passing beyond bounds; a thing or act not within established or reasonable limits; in general, excess; extravagance; luxury.
  2. n. Violence; a violent act; violent injury.
  3. n. Gross insult or injury: infamous wrong; audacious and especially violent infraction of law and order; atrocious or barbarous ill treatment; wanton, indecent, or immoral violence, or an act of wanton mischief or violence, especially against the person.
  4. n. Synonyms Insult, Indignity, etc. See affront.
  5. To attack; do violence, especially extreme wrong or violence, to; wrong heinously; maltreat.
  6. To assault violently or brutally; commit a barbarous attack upon; especially, to violate; ravish.
  7. To transgress shamefully; infringe audaciously upon; break through, violate, or offend against atrociously or flagrantly; act in utter or shameless disregard of the authority, obligation, or claims of.
  8. Synonyms See affront, n.
  9. To be excessive; commit excesses or extravagances; wanton; run riot; act without self-restraint or outrageously.
  10. Unreasonable; violent; mad.
  11. Extraordinary; unexampled; unusual; surprising; extravagant.
  12. To exceed in raging; rage beyond or more than.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
  2. n. An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
  3. n. The resentful anger aroused by such acts.
  4. n. obsolete A destructive rampage.
  5. v. transitive to cause or commit an outrage.
  6. v. transitive to cause resentment through such acts.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. rare To rage in excess of.
  2. n. Injurious violence or wanton wrong done to persons or things; a gross violation of right or decency; excessive abuse; wanton mischief; gross injury.
  3. n. obsolete Excess; luxury.
  4. v. To commit outrage upon; to subject to outrage; to treat with violence or excessive abuse.
  5. v. Specifically, to violate; to commit an indecent assault upon (a female).
  6. v. To cause to become very angry.
  7. v. To be guilty of an outrage; to act outrageously.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. violate the sacred character of a place or language
  2. v. force (someone) to have sex against their will
  3. v. strike with disgust or revulsion
  4. n. a feeling of righteous anger
  5. n. the act of scandalizing
  6. n. a wantonly cruel act
  7. n. a disgraceful event

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English and Old French oltrage ("excess"), from Late Latin *ultragium or *ultraticum ("a going beyond") and from Latin ultra ("beyond"); rather than from out and rage. The verb is from Old French oltragier. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from outre, beyond; see outré. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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