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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Furious \Fu"ri*ous\, a. [L. furiosus, fr. furia rage, fury: cf.
     F. furieux. See {Fury}.]
     1. Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a
        furious animal.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a
        furious stream; a furious wind or storm.
  
     Syn: Impetuous; vehement; boisterous; fierce; turbulent;
          tumultuous; angry; mad; frantic; frenzied. --
          {Fu"ri*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Fu"ri*ous*ness}, n.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  furiously
       adv 1: (of the elements) in a wild and stormy manner; "winds were
              blowing furiously"
       2: in a manner marked by extreme or violent energy; "the boys
          fought furiously"; "she went peddling furiously up the
          narrow street"
       3: in an impassioned or very angry manner; "she screamed
          furiously at her tormentors"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "furiously":
     a corps perdu, all to pieces, amain, angrily, apace, at once,
     by forced marches, carelessly, cursorily, deliriously, demonically,
     desperately, distractedly, expeditiously, fanatically, feverishly,
     fiercely, frantically, frenetically, frenziedly, hand over fist,
     happen what may, hastily, head over heels, headfirst, headforemost,
     headlong, heatedly, heedlessly, heels over head, helter-skelter,
     holus-bolus, hotfoot, hotheadedly, hotly, hurriedly, hurry-scurry,
     immediately, impetuously, in anger, in hot blood, in passing,
     indignantly, infuriatedly, infuriately, insensately, instantly,
     irately, like blazes, like crazy, like fury, like mad,
     like one possessed, madly, mindlessly, on the run, overeagerly,
     overenthusiastically, overzealously, pell-mell, precipitantly,
     precipitately, precipitously, promptly, quickly, rabidly,
     ramble-scramble, recklessly, rigorously, riotously, severely,
     slam-bang, slap-bang, slapdash, speedily, stormily, superficially,
     swiftly, tempestuously, troublously, turbulently, uncontrollably,
     uproariously, vehemently, venomously, violently, virulently,
     wantonly, wildly, with a rush, with a vengeance, with all haste,
     with dispatch, with haste
  
  

















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