Outcry vs Outrage - What's the difference?
outcry | outrage |
a loud cry or uproar
a strong protest
To cry out.
* 1919 , Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918: Volume 1
To cry louder than.
* 2003 , Melvyn Bragg, Crossing the lines (page 355)
* 2007 , Anthony Dalton, Alone Against the Arctic (page 104)
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.
In transitive terms the difference between outcry and outrage
is that outcry is to cry louder than while outrage is to cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.As nouns the difference between outcry and outrage
is that outcry is a loud cry or uproar while outrage is an excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.As verbs the difference between outcry and outrage
is that outcry is to cry out while outrage is to cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.outcry
English
Noun
(outcries)- His appearance was greeted with an outcry of jeering.
- The proposal was met with a public outcry .
Verb
- I think any man who outcries against the power of the government in Germany soon ceases to cry at all, because he is crushed.
- ...outcrying the clacking of train wheels, the shrill of the whistle...
- The dogs added their voices to the din, howling for hours, each trying to outcry the others.
Anagrams
* English heteronymsoutrage
English
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)