| 单词 | outrage |
| 释义 | outrage (once / 250 pages) nv If you consider how people are treated in airports an outrage, you get really angry over airport security or the price of airport food. Six dollars for a piece of pizza? What an outrage! Something is an outrage when it is shocking and makes you angry. Stealing from an orphanage? That's an outrage. Sometimes outrage leads to action. Public outrage over the latest political scandal often makes the news. WORD FAMILYoutrage: outraged, outrageous, outrages, outraging+/outrageous: outrageousest, outrageously, outrageousness USAGE EXAMPLESThe man who sparked outrage last year by hiking the price of a life-saving drug may have met his match in some Australian schoolboys. BBC(Dec 01, 2016) While Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s management of her State Department emails triggered massive GOP outrage, Russia’s interventions in our election trigger random statements. Washington Post(Nov 30, 2016) Instead, it has fueled outrage and brought the country’s culture of official impunity into glaring focus. Time(Nov 30, 2016) 1n a disgraceful event Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper scandal Teapot Dome scandal a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration Watergate scandala political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974 skeleton, skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard a scandal that is kept secret trouble an event causing distress or pain 2n a wantonly cruel act Hyper atrocity, inhumanity an act of atrocious cruelty 3n the act of scandalizing Syn|Hyper scandalisation, scandalization affront, insult a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect 4n a feeling of righteous anger Syn|Hypo|Hyper indignation dudgeon, high dudgeon a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon') anger, choler, ire a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance 5v violate the sacred character of a place or language Syn|Hyper desecrate, profane, violate assail, assault, attack, set on attack someone physically or emotionally 6v strike with disgust or revulsion Syn|Hyper appal, appall, offend, scandalise, scandalize, shock churn up, disgust, nauseate, revolt, sicken cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of 7v force (someone) to have sex against their will Hypo|Hyper gang-rape rape (someone) successively with several attackers assail, assault, attack, set on attack someone physically or emotionally |
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