Outrage vs Gibe - What's the difference?
outrage | gibe | Related terms |
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.
A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer or taunt.
* 1603 , , Hamlet , act 5, scene 1:
To perform a jibe (2, 3).
To agree.
To cause to execute a gibe (2, 3).
(ambitransitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to mock.
* Jonathan Swift
* Jonathan Swift
Outrage is a related term of gibe.
As a proper noun gibe is
.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.
- (Young)
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Alternative forms
* gybe * jibeNoun
(en noun)- Hamlet : Alas, poor Yorick! . . . Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Verb
(en-verb)- That explanation doesn't gibe with the facts.
- Draw the beasts as I describe them, / From their features, while I gibe them.
- Fleer and gibe , and laugh and flout.