furies in English

noun

1

wild or violent anger.

tears of fury and frustration

synonyms: rage, anger, wrath, outrage, spleen, temper, crossness, indignation, umbrage, annoyance, exasperation, ire, choler

2

a spirit of punishment, often represented as one of three goddesses who executed the curses pronounced upon criminals, tortured the guilty with stings of conscience, and inflicted famines and pestilences. The Furies were identified at an early date with the Eumenides.

The Eumenides shows the Furies in pursuit of Orestes, who is protected by the younger god Apollo.

noun

rage, anger, wrath, outrage, spleen, temper, crossness, indignation, umbrage, annoyance, exasperation, ire, choler
fierceness, ferocity, violence, turbulence, tempestuousness, savagery, severity, intensity, vehemence, force, forcefulness, power, strength
virago, hellcat, termagant, spitfire, vixen, shrew, harridan, dragon, gorgon, Eumenides
frenzy, hysteria, delirium, craze
madness, rage
ferocity, wildness, fierceness, vehemence, furiousness, violence

Use "furies" in a sentence

1. A league of furies awakened.

2. Alecto definition, one of the Furies

3. Dreadfull furies which their chains have Brast

4. 7 The furies had claws and merciless teeth.

5. Alecto was one of the three Furies in Greek mythology

6. Alecto is one of the Erinyes, or Furies, in Greek mythology

7. He was afraid of nameless, formless things that haunted his brain like the Furies.

8. Alecto is the name of one of the three Furies of Greco-Roman mythology

9. Sea Furies were issued to Nos. 736, 738, 759 and 778 Squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm.

10. I had begun my Adjuration with solemnity and an awe which almost assured me that the shades of my murdered friends heard and approved my devotion, but the furies possessed me as I concluded, and rage choked my utterance