Outrage vs Sicken - What's the difference?
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An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
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, 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 make ill.
To become ill.
* Francis Bacon
To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
* Shakespeare
To become disgusting or tedious.
* Goldsmith
To become weak; to decay; to languish.
* Alexander Pope
In transitive terms the difference between outrage and sicken
is that outrage is to cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse while sicken is to fill with disgust or abhorrence.As a noun outrage
is an excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.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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Verb
(en verb)- The infection will sicken him until amputation is needed.
- I will sicken if I don’t get some more exercise.
- The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died.
- His arrogant behaviour sickens me.
- Mine eyes did sicken at the sight.
- The toiling pleasure sickens into pain.
- All pleasures sicken , and all glories sink.