Outrage vs Squirm - 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 twist one’s body with snakelike motions.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment.
* 2010 , ,
To evade (a question, an interviewer etc).
(figuratively) To move in a slow, irregular motion.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=February 5
, author=Michael Kevin Darling
, title=Tottenham 2 - 1 Bolton
, work=BBC
As a verb squirm is
to twist one’s body with snakelike motions.As a noun squirm is
a twisting, snakelike movement of the body.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 prisoner managed to squirm out of the straitjacket.
- ...around us there had sprung up a perfect bedlam of screams and hisses and a seething caldron of hideous reptiles, devoid of fear and filled only with hunger and with rage. They clambered, squirmed and wriggled to the deck, forcing us steadily backward, though we emptied our pistols into them.
- "Throw it away, dear, do," she said, as they got into the road; but Jacob squirmed away from her...
- I recounted the embarrassing story in detail just to watch him squirm .
Questionable Content 1686: Twist in the Wind
- MARIGOLD: Should I tell them I know?
- DORA: Nah, let ’em squirm . Let’s go get some pie.
citation, page= , passage=The Dutchman then missed a retaken second spot-kick, before the Trotters hit back when Daniel Sturridge's shot squirmed under Heurelho Gomes. }}
