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Showing words for FURIES using the English dictionary

6 Letter Words for Furies

furies, surfie

5 Letter Words for Furies

fires, fries, reifs, serif, sieur

4 Letter Words for Furies

eris, feis, fers, feru, feus, fier, fies, fire, firs, fise, fris, furs, fuse, ires, iure, refs, reif, ries, rife, rifs, rise, rues, ruse, seif, seir, serf, sier, sife, sire, suer, sufi, sure, surf, ufer, ures, user

3 Letter Words for Furies

efs, eir, erf, ers, esr, esu, fei, fer, fes, feu, fie, fir, fri, frs, fur, ife, ifs, ire, irs, ise, ref, rei, res, rfs, rie, rif, rue, sei, ser, sie, sif, sir, sri, sue, suf, sui, sur, ufs, ure, urf, urs, use

Definitions for Furies

[1] unrestrained or violent anger, rage, passion, or the like: The gods unleashed their fury on the offending mortal.
[2] violence; vehemence; fierceness: the fury of a hurricane; a fury of creative energy.
[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: She became a fury when she felt she was unjustly accused.
[5] like fury , Informal . violently; intensely: It rained like fury.
[6] classical myth the snake-haired goddesses of vengeance, usually three in number, who pursued unpunished criminals Also called: Erinyes , Eumenides
[7] violent or uncontrolled anger; wild rage
[8] an outburst of such anger
[9] uncontrolled violence the fury of the storm
[10] a person, esp a woman, with a violent temper
[11] See Furies
[12] like fury informal violently; furiously they rode like fury

Words related to Furies

furymadness, rage, frenzy, energy, violence, ire, acrimony, intensity, passion, storm, furor, ferocity, indignation, savagery, severity, power, conniption, fire, rise, acerbity

Words nearby Furies

furyfurtwängler, furuncle, furunculoid, furunculosis, furunculus, fury, furze, fusain, fusan, fusarium, fusarium wilt

Origin of Furies

y1325–75; Middle English < Latin furia rage, equivalent to fur(ere ) to be angry, rage + -ia -y2

Words that may be confused with Furies

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, furyfurore, fury

Word origin for Furies

yC14: from Latin furia rage, from furere to be furious

Synonyms for Furies

acrimony, energy, ferocity, frenzy, furor, indignation, intensity, ire, madness, passion, rage, storm, violence, acerbity, asperity, conniption, fierceness, fire, flare-up, force, impetuosity, might, power, rabidity, rise, savagery, severity, sore, stew, tempestuousness, turbulence, vehemence, boiling point, rampancy, slow burn