outrage

Meanings

Noun

• An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
• An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
• The resentful, indignant, or shocked anger aroused by such acts.
• A destructive rampage.

Verb

• To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
• To inspire feelings of outrage in.
• To sexually violate; to rape.
• To rage in excess of.

Origin

• From Middle English outrage, from Old French outrage, oultrage, from Late Latin *ultrāgium, *ultrāticum ("a going beyond"), derived from Latin ultrā ("beyond"). Later reanalysed as out- + rage, whence the contemporary pronunciation, though neither of these is etymologically related.
• The verb is from Middle English outragen, from Old French oultragier.