noun · verb · 15 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Pronunciation
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/ˈaʊt.ɹeɪd͡ʒ/
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1
noun
Meaning 1
An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
The resentful, indignant, or shocked anger aroused by such acts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
A destructive rampage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
5
verb
Meaning 5
To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet Base and insolent minds [...] outrage men when they have Hopes of doing it without a Return.
1725-1726, William Broome, Odyssey The interview [...] outrages all the rules of decency.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
6
verb
Meaning 6
To inspire feelings of outrage in.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
The senator's comments outraged the community.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: enrage, inflame, provoke, affront, aggravate, anger, antagonize, awrath, burn up, cheese off, cross, embitter, envenom, gall, get, get to, honk off, incense, infuriate, madden, make angry, nark, offend, outrage, put out, rankle, rile, piss off, roil, set off, steam, tick off, get one's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, make someone see red, make someone's blood boil, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, raise someone's shag, rattle someone's cage, rub the wrong way, ruffle some feathers, set up someone's birse
Antonyms: none provided
7
verb
Meaning 7
To sexually violate; to rape.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
violate the sacred character of a place or language
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
desecrate a cemetery
violate the sanctity of the church
profane the name of God
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: desecrate, profane, violate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: assail, assault, set on, attack
History
Etymology
From Middle English outrage, from Old French outrage, oultrage (“excess”), from Vulgar Latin *ultrāticum ("a going beyond"), derived from Latin ultrā (“beyond”). Later reanalysed as out- + rage, whence the contemporary pronunciation, though neither of these are etymologically related. The verb is from Middle English outragen, from Old French oultragier.
Across languages
Translations
162 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Bulgarian:
безчинство
(bezčinstvo)
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Catalan:
atrocitat
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Chinese Cantonese:
暴行
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Chinese Mandarin:
暴行
(bàoxíng)
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Czech:
násilí
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Czech:
ukrutnost
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Dutch:
wandaad
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Finnish:
hirmuteko
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
French:
outrage
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
German:
Untat
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
German:
Gräueltat
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
German:
(empörendes) Verbrechen
(gegen moralische Werte oder Staat etc.)
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Greek:
έκτροπο
(éktropo)
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Greek:
ωμότητα
(omótita)
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Greek:
αγριότητα
(agriótita)
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Hungarian:
merénylet
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Hungarian:
erőszak
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Hungarian:
atrocitás
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Irish:
uafás
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Italian:
oltraggio
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Japanese:
乱暴
(ranbō)
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Japanese:
暴行
(bōkō)
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Latin:
flagitium
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Macedonian:
бес
(bes)
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Polish:
okropność
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Polish:
okrucieństwo
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Polish:
potworność
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Polish:
bezeceństwo
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Portuguese:
atrocidade
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Romanian:
atrocitate
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Russian:
злодея́ние
(zlodejánije)
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Spanish:
atrocidad
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Spanish:
ultraje
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Spanish:
tropelía
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Telugu:
దురాగతము
(durāgatamu)
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Welsh:
trais
— excessively violent or vicious attack; atrocity
Bulgarian:
насилие
(nasilie)
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Catalan:
ultratge
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Chinese Mandarin:
暴行
(bàoxíng)
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Czech:
zločin
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Czech:
zvěrstvo
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Dutch:
belediging
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Esperanto:
indigno
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
French:
offense
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Galician:
aldraxe
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
German:
Beleidigung
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
German:
Frevel
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
German:
Schandtat
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
German:
Schande
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
German:
Skandal
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Greek:
προσβολή
(prosvolí)
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Greek:
αίσχος
(aíschos)
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Hungarian:
gaztett
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Hungarian:
gazság
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Hungarian:
gyalázat
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Hungarian:
szörnyűség
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Irish:
feillbheart
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Japanese:
非道
(hidō)
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Macedonian:
безобра́зие
(bezobrázie)
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Polish:
obraza
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Polish:
zniewaga
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Portuguese:
ultraje
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Romanian:
ultraj
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Russian:
безобра́зие
(bezobrázije)
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
Russian:
произво́л
(proizvól)
— offensive, immoral or indecent act
