different between lesion vs outrage

English

Alternative forms

• læsion (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English lesioun, from Old French lesion, from Latin laesi? (“injury”), itself from laesus, perfect passive participle of laed? (“I injure, hurt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li???n/
• Rhymes: -i???n

Noun

lesion (plural lesions)

1. (pathology) A wound or injury.
2. (medicine) An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such on a patch of skin.
3. (biochemistry) Any compound formed from damage to a nucleic acid.
4. (law) Injury or an unfair imbalance in a commutative contract wherein the consideration is less than half of the market value, which then serves as a basis for the injured party to sue to rescind the agreement.

Derived terms

Related terms

• lese majesty, lèse majesté

Translations

Verb

lesion (third-person singular simple present lesions, present participle lesioning, simple past and past participle lesioned)

1. (transitive) To wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.

Translations

Anagrams

• Elison, eloins, esloin, insole, oleins, onlies, selion

Interlingua

Noun

lesion (plural lesiones)

1. lesion, injury

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin laesio.

Noun

lesion f (plural lesions)

1. harm; damage

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin laesio.

Noun

lesion f (oblique plural lesions, nominative singular lesion, nominative plural lesions)

1. harm; damage

English

Etymology

From Middle English outrage, from Old French outrage, oultrage (“excess”), from Late Latin *ultr?gium, *ultr?ticum ("a going beyond"), derived from Latin ultr? (“beyond”). Later reanalysed as out- +? rage, whence the contemporary pronunciation, though neither of these is etymologically related.

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

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /?a?t.?e?d??/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?æot.?æed??/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /?a?t.??d??/

Noun

outrage (countable and uncountable, plural outrages)

1. An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
2. An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
3. The resentful, indignant, or shocked anger aroused by such acts.
4. (obsolete) A destructive rampage. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Verb

outrage (third-person singular simple present 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.

Translations

Related terms

• outrageous

References

Further reading

• outrage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• outrage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Old French oltrage

Noun

outrage m (plural outrages)

1. offence, insult, contempt
2. (literary) onslaught

Verb

outrage

1. first-person singular present indicative of outrager
2. third-person singular present indicative of outrager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of outrager
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of outrager
5. second-person singular imperative of outrager

Further reading

• “outrage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).