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Outrage

To rage in excess of.

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Broader term 15

Affront 76% connected

To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.

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Anger 76% connected

Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.

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Assail 76% connected

To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

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Assault 76% connected

A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…

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Atrocity 76% connected

Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.

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Attack 76% connected

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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Choler 76% connected

The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility.

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Disgust 76% connected

To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- oft…

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Inhumanity 76% connected

The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity.

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Insult 76% connected

The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

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Ire 76% connected

Anger; wrath.

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Nauseate 76% connected

To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.

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Revolt 76% connected

To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

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Sicken 76% connected

To make sick; to disease.

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Trouble 76% connected

To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

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Dudgeon 76% connected

The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made.

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Skeleton 76% connected

The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.

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Appall 74% connected

To make pale; to blanch.

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Appall 74% connected

To make pale; to blanch.

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Assault 74% connected

A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Assault 74% connected

A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…

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Blasphemy 74% connected

An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evi…

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Blasphemy 74% connected

An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evi…

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Ravisher 74% connected

One who ravishes (in any sense).

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Ravisher 74% connected

One who ravishes (in any sense).

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Ravishment 74% connected

The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, of a ward from his guardian, or o…

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Ravishment 74% connected

The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, of a ward from his guardian, or o…

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Scandalous 74% connected

Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.

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Scandalous 74% connected

Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.

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Shock 74% connected

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

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Shock 74% connected

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

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Synonym 13

Appall 92% connected

To make pale; to blanch.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Assault 92% connected

A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Desecrate 92% connected

To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dishonor 92% connected

Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Indignation 92% connected

The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Offend 92% connected

To strike against; to attack; to assail.

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Profane 92% connected

Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, rel…

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Rape 92% connected

Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ravish 92% connected

To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Scandal 92% connected

Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgr…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Scandalize 92% connected

To offend the feelings or the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shock 92% connected

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Violate 92% connected

To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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