From Middle English outrage, from Old French outrage, oultrage ("excess"), from Vulgar Latin *ultrāticum ("a going beyond"), derived from Latin ultrā.

The verb is from Middle English outragen, from Old French oultragier.

• IPA: /ˈaʊt.ɹeɪd͡ʒ/
• (obsolete) IPA: /ˈaʊt.ɹɪd͡ʒ/

outrage

1. An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
   • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case ↗”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC ↗; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831 ↗, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

     There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]

2. An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
3. The resentful, indignant, or shocked anger aroused by such acts.
4. (obsolete) A destructive rampage.

• French: outrage
• German: Untat, Gräueltat, (empörendes) Verbrechen (gegen moralische Werte oder Staat etc.)
• Italian: oltraggio
• Portuguese: atrocidade
• Russian: злодея́ние
• Spanish: atrocidad

• French: offense
• German: Beleidigung, Frevel, Schandtat, Schande, Skandal
• Portuguese: ultraje
• Russian: безобра́зие
• Spanish: ultraje, desafuero, atropello

• French: colère, rage, indignation
• German: Wut, Rage, Empörung, Entrüstung
• Italian: sdegno, indignazione
• Portuguese: raiva, indignação
• Russian: я́рость
• Spanish: indignación, rabia, cólera

outrage (outrages, present participle outraging; simple past and past participle outraged)

1. (transitive) To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
   • August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet

     Base and insolent minds […] outrage men when they have Hopes of doing it without a Return.

   • 1725-1726, William Broome, Odyssey

     The interview […] outrages all the rules of decency.

2. (transitive) To inspire feelings of outrage in.

   The senator's comments outraged the community.

3. (archaic, transitive) To sexually violate; to rape.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To rage in excess of.
   • 1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC ↗:

     Their will the tiger sucked, outraged the storm

• French: indigner
• German: mit Füßen treten (idiom), brüskieren, vor den Kopf stoßen (idiom)
• Italian: oltraggiare
• Spanish: indignar

• German: empören, schockieren

• outrageous