Crossword-Solution: FURIES
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Furies | n. pl. | See Fury, 3. |
| Furies | pl. | of Fury |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FURIES | anagram | SURFIE |
We have 19 clues for the answer “FURIES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Avenging spirits in Greek myth | 1 answer |
| Trio of vengeful goddesses | 1 answer |
| Trio of Greek goddesses who were into punishment | 1 answer |
| Orestes' tormentors | 1 answer |
| Mythological vengeance deities | 1 answer |
| Megaera, Tisiphone, and Alecto, collectively | 1 answer |
| Greek goddesses of vengeance | 1 answer |
| Avenging spirits of mythology | 1 answer |
| Avenging spirits of myth | 1 answer |
| Avenging spirits of Greek myth | 1 answer |
| Avenging goddesses | 1 answer |
| Avengers of myth | 1 answer |
| Alecto, Megaera and Tisiphone | 1 answer |
| Erinyes | 2 answers |
| Trio of myth | 4 answers |
| TRIO (myth.) | 4 answers |
| deity avenging | 10 answers |
| Avenging spirits | 10 answers |
| ALECTO COLLEAGUE | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEMAZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FURIES (5)
Thither by harpy-footed Furies hail’d, At certain revolutions all the damn’d Are brought: and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extreams, extreams by change more fierce, From Beds of raging Fire to starve in Ice Thir soft Ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infixt, and frozen round, Periods of time, thence hurried back to fire.
Ill wast thou shrouded then, O patient Son of God, yet only stood’st 420 Unshaken! Nor yet staid the terror there: Infernal ghosts and hellish furies round Environed thee; some howled, some yelled, some shrieked, Some bent at thee their fiery darts, while thou Sat’st unappalled in calm and sinless peace.
The fire was spreading rapidly through all parts of the castle, when Ulrica, who had first kindled it, appeared on a turret, in the guise of one of the ancient furies, yelling forth a war-song, such as was of yore raised on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons.
Heralded by a courier in advance, and by the cracking of his postilions’ whips, which twined snake-like about their heads in the evening air, as if he came attended by the Furies, Monsieur the Marquis drew up in his travelling carriage at the posting-house gate.
Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies’ hair.
Quotes with FURIES (3)
The perpetual movement of the water, rolling from and to unknown destinations, the voices of the sea shield us from the raging furies and shrieking sounds of dystopian surroundings, creating an unwinding veil for stilled happiness, acquainting us with the gentle, cosmic rhythms of an extraneous world. They are a soothing relief and let us listen to the voices of our inner world. ("Voices of the sea" )
Fate seems to scourge some people with her furies, while it ravishes others with her graces with none having done absolutely nothing to suffer the furies or merit the graces.
There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on the face of facts a sinister violence of intention- that indefinable something which forces it upon the mind and the heart of a man, that this complication of accidents or these elemental furies are coming at him with a purpose of malice, with a strength beyond control, with an unbridled cruelty that means to tear out of him his hope and his fear, the pain of his fat…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, WP, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1973–2025).