noun
1 great anger
ADJECTIVE
▪ genuine
▪ widespread
▪ international
▪ public
▪ moral
▪
Media reports generated moral ~.
VERB + OUTRAGE
▪ be greeted with , cause , generate , provoke , spark
▪
The news was greeted with ~.
▪ feel
▪ express , voice
▪
Shopkeepers voiced their ~ at the new tax.
OUTRAGE + VERB
▪ be directed at sb/sth
▪
Much of the ~ was directed at foreign nationals.
PREPOSITION
▪ in ~
▪
The guests all shouted in ~.
▪ with ~
▪
She was trembling with ~.
▪ ~ at
▪
Campaigners have expressed ~ at the decision.
▪ ~ over
▪
There is widespread public ~ over the massacre.
PHRASES
▪ cries of ~ , howls of ~
▪
The announcement provoked howls of ~.
▪ a feeling of ~ , a sense of ~
2 cruel/shocking act
VERB + OUTRAGE
▪ commit , perpetrate
▪
the ~s committed by the invading army
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ against
▪
The new law on pensions is an ~ against the elderly.