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What does Furies mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Greek) The goddesses of vengeance; they were also known to accompany Nemesis. Their Roman counterparts were the Dirae.
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In his theatric way he used to tell his intimates that he was haunted by all the Furies.
Are not perhaps his three daughters the Three Furies, those tempting females?
Once the Furies are unleashed in a situation like Syria, the president told his British guest, it can be hard to put things together.
The Eumenides shows the Furies in pursuit of Orestes, who is protected by the younger god Apollo.
As opera matured over the next 150 years, the dramatic duties that at first had been assigned to mere Shades and Furies were taken over by full-fledged gods and goddesses.
He is pursued by the Furies, grotesque female divinities charged with the punishment of those who have shed the blood of kinfolk.

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