outrage
part of speech
noun (outrage, outrages); verb (outrage, outrages, outraged, outraging)
meaning for a pupil
1) noun: A very strong feeling of anger and shock because something seems deeply unfair or wrong. tree →
2) noun: An act that is so cruel, wrong or shocking that it makes people very angry: "The attack was an outrage." tree →
3) verb: To make people feel very angry and shocked. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the news "outrage" shows that many people are angry about something, such as an unfair rule or a cruel act. In stories it shows a character's strong anger at injustice. In everyday talk someone may say "It's an outrage!" a bit jokingly about small things. Phrases: public outrage, in outrage, cause outrage, express outrage, be outraged by.
examples
- There was outrage when the council closed the library. tree →
- "It's an outrage!" shouted Dad when the price of crisps went up again. tree →
- The fans were outraged by the referee's decision. tree →
- Burning the forest was an outrage against nature. tree →
- People wrote letters to show their outrage. tree →
- She gasped in outrage when her brother ate her birthday cake. tree →
- The cruel treatment of the animals outraged the whole village. tree →
- Katoma submitted patiently to the outrage. tree →
note
Noun "outrage" is usually uncountable for the feeling (much outrage) but countable for a single act (an outrage, outrages). Adjective: outrageous (very shocking, or very silly: an outrageous hat). It is not "out" + "rage" in meaning "rage outside"; it comes from old French and means "going beyond the limit".
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «outrage» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.