OUTRAGE

v. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To rage in excess of. [R.] Young.

2.
n.

Injurious violence or wanton wrong done to persons or things; a gross violation of right or decency; excessive abuse; wanton mischief; gross injury. Chaucer. He wrought great outrages, wasting all the country. Spenser.

3.
n.

Excess; luxury. [Obs.] Chaucer.

4.
v.

To commit outrage upon; to subject to outrage; to treat with violence or excessive abuse. Base and insolent minds outrage men when they have hope of doing it without a return. Atterbury. This interview outrages all decency. Broome.

5.
v.

Specifically, to violate; to commit an indecent assault upon (a female).

6.
v.

To be guilty of an outrage; to act outrageously.

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