Outrage vs Exasperate - What's the difference?
outrage | exasperate |
An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
The resentful anger aroused by such acts.
(obsolete) A destructive rampage.
To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
* Atterbury
* Broome
(archaic) To violate; to rape (a female).
(obsolete) To rage in excess of.
To frustrate, vex, provoke, or annoy; to make angry.
* , Macbeth , act 3, sc. 6:
* 1851 , , Moby Dick , ch. 3:
* 1853 , , Bleak House , ch. 11:
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(obsolete) Exasperated; embittered.
* Elizabeth Browning
As a verb exasperate is
to frustrate, vex, provoke, or annoy; to make angry.As an adjective exasperate is
(obsolete) exasperated; embittered.outrage
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Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}
- "by the outrage and fury of the river " (from an old description of flood damage).
Verb
(outrag)- Base and insolent minds outrage men when they have hope of doing it without a return.
- This interview outrages all decency.
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English
Verb
(exasperat)- this report
- Hath so exasperate the king that he
- Prepares for some attempt of war.
- The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.
- Beadle goes into various shops and parlours, examining the inhabitants; always shutting the door first, and by exclusion, delay, and general idiotcy, exasperating the public.
Woman of the Year: Corazon Aquino," Time , 5 Jan:
- [S]he exasperates her security men by acting as if she were protected by some invisible shield.
Loyal Mail," Times Online (UK), 4 June (retrieved 7 Oct 2010):
- News that Adam Crozier, Royal Mail chief executive, is set to receive a bumper bonus will exasperate postal workers.
Adjective
(en adjective)- (Shakespeare)
- Like swallows which the exasperate dying year / Sets spinning.
