I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
provoke anger/outrage
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His detention has provoked the anger of his supporters.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
international
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She was spared further abuse - possibly torture - only after international outrage put pressure on the regime for her release.
moral
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Whatever the topic under discussion, they automatically began with some resentful expression of moral outrage .
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However, such public condemnation and the associated moral outrage can, on occasions, be strangely muted.
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Regional officers had lived for many years with successive waves of moral outrage about the scandalous conditions within the asylums.
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Media reports of child abuse cases often express this sense of moral outrage .
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And moral outrage at the use of simple expedients can still run high.
public
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One might well conclude the dismissal was a feint, a hollow gesture to allay perceived public outrage .
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Rising public outrage eventually forced Intel to reverse its policy and offer replacement chips to anyone who wanted one.
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Holloway prison's C1 unit has for some time been the subject of public concern and outrage .
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Media coverage generates public outrage , if incomplete understanding.
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That sort of episode makes them subject to public outrage .
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The assault on Chung was greeted with widespread public outrage .
■ VERB
cause
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But it caused a national outrage .
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The judge in the Wonderland Club case has caused outrage by not using the current maximum sentence of three years.
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News of the deal caused outrage in Britain, and Flintshire social services placed the girls with foster parents.
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Cope's own sleevenotes have also caused outrage , containing vitriolic attacks on Axl Rose and U2, among others.
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It caused outrage around the world among politicians, football fans and administrators.
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The proposal, from Detroit's ombudsman, has caused outrage - and a certain amount of thought.
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The collapsing of these genres, however, caused outrage .
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This will cause outrage among the anti-censorship crew.
express
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They have written to John Major expressing their outrage .
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Some Wall Street firms have expressed outrage at punitive awards, and many investors have complained of brokers' stalling tactics.
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Probably there wouldn't be words sufficient to express the outrage .
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Opposition parties have expressed outrage at his flouting of the referendum vote.
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Earlier, the Princess issued a statement expressing her outrage and distress over the affair.
feel
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I felt a sort of outrage .
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When I felt outrage was I simply a cipher for cultural prejudice?
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Each of these students has felt anger and outrage at the insults and slurs he or she have experienced.
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I felt pain, outrage , more pain, hot anger.
provoke
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It has also provoked outrage overseas.
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Home Rule's suspension was real, and every attempt to implement it in wartime provoked sufficient Unionist outrage to stop it.
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His death provokes an outrage and a police investigation into the shooting.
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Sensational news stories are more likely to provoke outrage than academic work or serious social comment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Any attempts to lessen his prison sentence will cause public outrage .
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It's an outrage that men who didn't finish high school sometimes earn more than women with college educations.
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Prominent Republicans have expressed outrage at the decision.
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Several parents of affected children have written to the Prime Minister to express their outrage .
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The anarchic music of punk caused public outrage when it first burst upon the scene.
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The plans brought cries of outrage from residents.
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The prices they charge are an outrage !
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The sense of anger and outrage within the community seemed to grow by the hour.
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The terrorist attack, in which two innocent tourists were murdered, is the third outrage of its kind this year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At last, I recognize my latest outrage .
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For they understood the source of the outrage as well as they knew the source of light.
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I felt disbelief, and some sense of outrage that this should happen to me.
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In the afternoon, ritual becomes outrage and entire buckets of water are thrown at all and sundry.
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The fearful electorate found Reagan's outrage and can-do optimism more persuasive than the dour Brown's equivocation.
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The images of these hopeless, hungry people haunted her, filling her with outrage .
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There is something in this above controversy and outrage and all these over-familiar words.
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You really must bring this outrage to an end.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Are shareholders outraged by these payments?
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But his wife is outraged on his behalf.
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Football fans and coaches were outraged that their schedules were being upset.
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My constituents are outraged by the fact that Ministers seem to regard themselves as above the law.
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Parents and social services were outraged that abuse victims might come into contact with Stout again if he returned to the city.
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So instead of being outraged, one is left with a resigned smirk.
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Stopped by another outraged driver, the motorist was apologetic, saying he had forgotten the danger of his actions.
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The Maxwell name has been reviled by 20,000 pensioners outraged that £400 million had been pillaged from their pension funds.