Fury
Fury noun - An intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something.
Usage example: in his fury, the duped gambler overturned the card table and declared that the game had been fixed
Grudge
Grudge noun - A lingering ill will towards a person for a real or imagined wrong.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- And in The Avengers, Nick Fury explains how the presence of someone from another world (whose "grudge match leveled a small town") left S.H.I.E.L.D. reeling.
Source: Outside-Context Problem -
In Darkness Calls a fairy with a grudge against Hellboy sets events in motion which result in a fairy coup d'etat; in The Storm and the Fury, this culminates in the battle for the fate of the world occurring on the fields of fairyland.
Source: Land of Faerie
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