Synonyms of the word

outrage

• n. An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
• n. An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
• n. The resentful anger aroused by such acts.
• n. (obsolete) A destructive rampage.
• v. (transitive) To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To violate; to rape (a female).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To rage in excess of.

affront

• v. To insult intentionally, especially openly.
• v. To meet defiantly; to confront.
• v. (obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.
• n. An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
• n. (obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.

anger

• n. A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined…
• n. (obsolete) Pain or stinging.
• v. (transitive) To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
• v. (intransitive) To become angry.

appal

• v. (Britain, less common) Alternative spelling of appall.

appall

• v. (transitive) To fill with horror; to dismay.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make pale; to blanch.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To weaken; to reduce in strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To lose flavour or become stale.

assail

• v. To attack violently using words or force.

assault

• n. A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
• n. A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, for example words, arguments, appeals, and the like.
• n. (criminal law) An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence,…
• n. (singular only, law) The crime whose action is such an attempt.
• n. (tort law) An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm.
• n. (singular only, law) The tort whose action is such an act.
• n. (fencing) A non-competitive combat between two fencers.
• v. To attack, threaten or harass.

atrocity

• n. (uncountable) The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.
• n. (countable) An extremely cruel act; a horrid act of injustice.

attack

• n. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
• n. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by…
• n. A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.
• n. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
• n. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane…
• n. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
• n. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
• n. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
• n. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that…
• n. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level…
• v. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines,…
• v. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
• v. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
• v. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
• v. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

choler

• n. Anger or irritability.
• n. One of the four humours of ancient physiology, also known as yellow bile.

desecrate

• v. (transitive) To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something.
• v. (transitive) To remove the consecration from someone or something; to deconsecrate.
• v. (transitive) To inappropriately change.
• adj. (rare) Desecrated.

disgust

• v. To cause an intense dislike for something.
• n. An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.

dishonor

• n. US standard spelling of dishonour.
• v. US standard spelling of dishonour.

dishonour

• n. Shame or disgrace.
• n. Lack of honour or integrity.
• n. (law) Failure or refusal of the drawee or intended acceptor of a negotiable instrument, such as a bill…
• v. To bring disgrace upon someone or something; to shame.
• v. To refuse to accept something, such as a cheque; to not honor.
• v. To violate or rape.

indignation

• n. An anger aroused by something perceived as an indignity, notably an offense or injustice.
• n. A self-righteous anger or disgust.

inhumanity

• n. The lack of compassion.
• n. An inhuman act.

insult

• v. (transitive) To offend (someone) by being rude, insensitive or insolent; to demean or affront (someone).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against).
• v. (obsolete) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
• n. An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.
• n. Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality.
• n. (medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes.
• n. (obsolete) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

ire

• n. (Now chiefly dialectal) Iron.
• n. (literary, poetic) Great anger; wrath; keen resentment.
• v. (transitive) To anger; to fret; to irritate.

nauseate

• v. (transitive) To cause nausea in.
• v. (transitive) To disgust.
• v. (intransitive) To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To reject or spit (something) out because it causes a feeling of nausea.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To be disgusted by (something).

offend

• v. (transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
• v. (intransitive) To feel or become offended, take insult.
• v. (transitive) To physically harm, pain.
• v. (transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
• v. (intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
• v. (transitive) To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical) To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.

profane

• adj. Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
• adj. Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
• adj. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
• adj. Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain.
• n. A person or thing that is profane.
• n. (freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
• v. (transitive) To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to…
• v. (transitive) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

rape

• n. (now rare) The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder.
• n. (now archaic) The abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes.
• n. The act of forcing sexual intercourse upon another person without their consent or against their will;…
• n. (obsolete) That which is snatched away.
• n. (obsolete) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
• n. (slang) Overpowerment; utter defeat.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with overtones of later senses.).
• v. (transitive) To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
• v. (chiefly transitive) To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their…
• v. (transitive) To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
• v. (US slang, chiefly Internet) To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.
• n. (now historical) One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive or reflexive) To make haste; to hasten or hurry.
• n. (obsolete) Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.
• adv. (obsolete) Quickly; hastily.
• n. Rapeseed, Brassica napus.
• n. The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
• n. A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
• n. (obsolete) Fruit plucked in a bunch.

ravish

• v. (obsolete or archaic) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
• v. (transitive, usually passive) To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To rape.

revolt

• v. To rebel, particularly against authority.
• v. To repel greatly.
• v. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
• v. (intransitive) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.
• v. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
• n. an act of revolt.

scandal

• n. An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
• n. Damage to one's reputation.
• n. Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.
• n. (theology) Religious discredit; an act or behaviour which brings a religion into discredit.
• n. (theology) Something which hinders acceptance of religious ideas or behaviour; a stumbling-block or offense.
• n. Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
• v. (obsolete) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to slander.
• v. (obsolete) To scandalize; to offend.

scandalisation

• n. Alternative form of scandalization.

scandalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of scandalize.

scandalization

• n. The process of scandalizing.

scandalize

• v. To shock someone.
• v. To be offensive to someone.
• v. (nautical) To reduce the area and efficiency of a sail by expedient means (e.g. slacking the peak and…

shock

• n. Sudden, heavy impact.
• n. (mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
• v. To cause to be emotionally shocked.
• v. To give an electric shock.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
• n. An arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.
• n. (commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
• n. (by extension) A tuft or bunch of something (e.g. hair, grass).
• n. (obsolete, by comparison) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.
• v. To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.

sicken

• v. (transitive) To make ill.
• v. (intransitive) To become ill.
• v. (transitive) To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
• v. (sports) To lower the standing of.
• v. (intransitive) To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
• v. (intransitive) To become disgusting or tedious.
• v. (intransitive) To become weak; to decay; to languish.

trouble

• n. A distressing or dangerous situation.
• n. A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
• n. A violent occurrence or event.
• n. Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
• n. A malfunction.
• n. Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
• n. (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
• v. (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
• v. (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother; to annoy, pester.
• v. (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains to do something.

violate

• v. (sometimes computing) To break, disregard, disagree or not act according to (rules, conventions, etc.).
• v. (euphemistic) To rape.