rage

[ reyj ]

/ reɪdʒ /

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noun

angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.

a fit of violent anger: Her rages usually don't last too long.

fury or violence of wind, waves, fire, disease, etc.

violence of feeling, desire, or appetite: the rage of thirst.

a violent desire or passion.

ardor; fervor; enthusiasm: poetic rage.

the object of widespread enthusiasm, as for being popular or fashionable: Raccoon coats were the rage on campus.

Archaic. insanity.

verb (used without object), raged, rag·ing.

to act or speak with fury; show or feel violent anger; fulminate.

to move, rush, dash, or surge furiously.

to proceed, continue, or prevail with great violence: The battle raged ten days.

(of feelings, opinions, etc.) to hold sway with unabated violence.

Idioms for rage

all the rage, widely popular or in style.

Origin of rage

1250–1300; (noun) Middle English < Old French < Late Latin rabia, Latin rabiēs madness, rage, derivative of rabere to rage; (v.) ragen < Old French ragier, derivative of rage (noun)

SYNONYMS FOR rage

1 wrath, frenzy, passion, ire, madness.

3 turbulence.

6 eagerness, vehemence.

7 vogue, fad, fashion, craze.

9, 10 rave, fume, storm.

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ANTONYMS FOR rage

1 calm.

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synonym study for rage

1. See anger.

OTHER WORDS FROM rage

rage·ful, adjective rag·ing·ly, adverb

Words nearby rage

raga, ragamuffin, ragbag, ragbolt, ragdoll, rage, rage quit, ragfish, ragga, ragged, ragged edge

Example sentences from the Web for raging

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Suddenly, you are crying, breathless, raging, and on quieter days just going through the motions.

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Thousands of years ago, Saudi Arabia fortuitously sat in the middle of the raging incense trade.

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Still, Morgan Freeman, for instance, is a bit of a raging liberal.

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His inheritance, which ran to millions of Deutschmarks, was worth only pennies after the raging post-war inflation.

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Unlike them they held no dazzling sapphire brilliancies; they were ochreous, suffused with raging vermilion.

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News of the raging battle came in with every ambulance to the Clair Hospital.

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The fire was said to be raging in the main street, quite close to the principal inn.

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It was mid-summer, and on the road came the news that the cholera was raging in Paris.

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Ned thrust the raging fellow back and held him until he had calmed down somewhat.

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British Dictionary definitions for raging

rage

/ (reɪdʒ) /

noun

intense anger; fury

violent movement or action, esp of the sea, wind, etc

great intensity of hunger, sexual desire, or other feelings

aggressive behaviour associated with a specified environment or activity road rage; school rage

a fashion or craze (esp in the phrase all the rage)

Australian and NZ informal a dance or party

verb (intr)

to feel or exhibit intense anger

(esp of storms, fires, etc) to move or surge with great violence

(esp of a disease or epidemic) to spread rapidly and uncontrollably

Australian and NZ informal to have a good time

Word Origin for rage

C13: via Old French from Latin rabiēs madness

Idioms and Phrases with raging

rage

see all the rage.

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verb (intr)

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rage

noun

verb (used without object), raged, rag·ing.

Idioms for rage

Origin of rage

SYNONYMS FOR rage

ANTONYMS FOR rage

synonym study for rage

OTHER WORDS FROM rage

Words nearby rage

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