(a.) Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal.
(a.) Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm.
Example Sentences:
(1) You have to prove there is a need.” Brian, a researcher with a PhD in medical science, was shocked and furious to find himself driven to food banks after a car accident, marital breakdown and sudden unemployment left him without enough money to live on.
(2) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
(3) This was greeted by a furious wall of sound from Labour, which only grew when he added: "The last government failed to prioritise compassionate care … they tried to shut down the whistleblowers …" It was pure party-political point-scoring, matched in spades by Labour's Andy Burnham.
(4) When Barak reneged on his commitment to transfer the three Jerusalem villages - a commitment he had specifically authorised Clinton to convey to Arafat - Clinton was furious.
(5) April 2011: A furious Spurs launch judicial review of the decision , while Leyton Orient also launch a High Court challenge.
(6) Photograph: Fabio De Paola Thomas Howarth: student, Derby "There's this perception that you've got to be furiously depressed and lonely to listen to the Smiths," says Thomas Howarth, 18, from Derby.
(7) Beijing is furious at the Nobel committee's decision to give the award to Liu, who is serving an 11-year sentence for incitement to subversion for co-authoring Charter 08, an appeal for democratic reforms.
(8) However, at the time, he was furious that the Danish text which the US had received advance information about, had been leaked to the Guardian .
(9) China is furious at the decision to recognise Liu, jailed for incitement to subvert state power after co-authoring a call for democratic reforms.
(10) The electorate is furious - from members getting wives, partners and relatives on the parliamentary payroll to expense claims for duck houses, flipping and servants quarters."
(11) And to suggest that this isn't going to affect his job as a minister - he's not going to be taken seriously by the home secretary, who I understand is absolutely furious about his appointment.
(12) There are two fantasies about the British countryside that were given ample play in last week's furious debates about the rights and wrongs of building there.
(13) A furious David Cameron forced to him to stand down at the last general election.
(14) A furious row has broken out among local politicians over a proposal to build a nuclear waste dump in Kent.
(15) Despite MacMaster's assertion "I do not believe that I have harmed anyone", activists were furious.
(16) In 2015, Pence signed an anti-LGBT bill opponents said would allow wide-scale discrimination, kicking off a furious and costly boycott of the state by much of corporate America.
(17) The mayor is a good person, but no one invited him, certainly not officially … The pope was furious.” While the prank provided fodder to critics of the mayor, it also underscored a more serious issue between the Vatican and Rome just a few months ahead of the church’s jubilee year of mercy, which begins on 8 December.
(18) Red Sox manager John Farrell immediately and furiously made his way from the dugout to contest the decision.
(19) In tracts and treatises they furiously debated such issues as the nature of man, the powers of God, and the true path to salvation.
(20) Delivering ultimatums is a sorry way to go about a ministry, but we will hang on by our fingertips, sad and furious in equal measure, until the authority of women and men is accepted by the church we love but, at times like this, find impossible to defend.
Irate
Definition:
(a.) Angry; incensed; enraged.
Example Sentences:
(1) High among the range of issues was the media dominance of the Globo group (whose journalists were chased away from demonstrations by an irate mob), inefficient use of public funds, forced relocations linked to Olympic real estate developments, the treatment of indigenous groups, dire inequality and excessive use of force by police in favela communities.
(2) A retired man became irate as he detailed why he couldn’t stand her: her handling of the attack against the US consulate in Benghazi , her email scandal , her cosy ties to Wall Street.
(3) The station nearest the Itaquerão stadium that will host the World Cup's opening match on 12 June was damaged by irate commuters who kicked down the metal barriers at two entrances.
(4) With European taxpayers already irate that Greece will need yet more funds to keep afloat, the €130bn financial support load had previously been seen as a red line across which no EU government was willing to step.
(5) While the Andersons appeared to be coming around to a brokered surrender, Fry became increasingly irate, refusing to quiet down when the other occupiers said they couldn’t hear Fiore and Seim on the other end of the call.
(6) At his afternoon event, all is ambivalence: he's received as a hero, but then spends a good deal of his allotted hour taking questions – and mini-speeches – from irate members of the audience.
(7) "You can't transform sports without targets," he said, qualifying this by adding that South Africa would not be like Kenya and send swimmers to the Olympics to "drown in the pool" – provoking a Twitter backlash from irate Kenyans under #SomeoneTellSouthAfrica .
(8) Irate trade unionists took over Athens' ancient landmark as fury over an unprecedented package of austerity measures, agreed in return for a multibillion euro aid package from eurozone nations and the IMF, intensified.
(9) Tempers have flared elsewhere across the country as irate voters have disrupted public meetings held by Democratic members of Congress.
(10) Irecently read a post on a Swedish parenting website from an irate mother complaining that, when she took her young son to see a children's film, an ad was shown featuring a gay couple telling each other: "I love you."
(11) Increased irAT levels heralded rejection of the pancreatic allograft by 4 to 30 days (median 20 days) in 13 of the 16 rejecting animals (80%).
(12) Both acylation and deacylation are rate-determining for these substrates, while only deacylation irate-determining for methyl-N-acetyl-L-phenylalanylglycinate.
(13) An irate Murdoch began inundating Wolff with increasingly urgent messages on his voicemail, saying he had read four of the 17 chapters and had "grave concerns about the facts".
(14) My abiding memory of him will be him being taken to task by two irate locals about the state of the town centre, and David winning them over."
(15) Those irate British nimbys, along with the green groups who want to leave fossil fuels in the ground, are quite capable of making life miserable for the shale prospectors.
(16) The same gift of the gab that a good hotel manager deploys to schmooze an irate guest complaining about draughts made the difference between life and death; he cajoled and coaxed, flattered and deceived, lied and bribed.
(17) No advantage was seen in the determination of urinary IRI when compared to determination of urinary irAT.
(18) This decline was seen after the increase in serum irAT.
(19) The article also offers suggestions on dealing with the irate or frightened parent.
(20) Graft pancreatitis and allograft rejection were both accompanied by increased serum levels of immunoreactive anionic trypsin (irAT) in a porcine pancreatic allograft transplantation model.