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rage 
[reyj] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, raged, rag·ing.
—Related forms
[reyj] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, raged, rag·ing. –noun
–verb (used without object)
—Idiom
| 1. | angry fury; violent anger. |
| 2. | a fit of violent anger. |
| 3. | fury or violence of wind, waves, fire, disease, etc. |
| 4. | violence of feeling, desire, or appetite: the rage of thirst. |
| 5. | a violent desire or passion. |
| 6. | ardor; fervor; enthusiasm: poetic rage. |
| 7. | the object of widespread enthusiasm, as for being popular or fashionable: Raccoon coats were the rage on campus. |
| 8. | Archaic. insanity. |
| 9. | to act or speak with fury; show or feel violent anger; fulminate. |
| 10. | to move, rush, dash, or surge furiously. |
| 11. | to proceed, continue, or prevail with great violence: The battle raged ten days. |
| 12. | (of feelings, opinions, etc.) to hold sway with unabated violence. |
| 13. | all the rage, widely popular or in style. |
[Origin: 1250–1300; (n.) ME < OF < LL rabia, L rabiés madness, rage, deriv. of rabere to rage; (v.) ragen < OF ragier, deriv. of rage (n.)]
] —Related forms
rageful, adjective
rag·ing·ly, adverb
—Synonyms 1. wrath, frenzy, passion, ire, madness. See anger. 3. turbulence. 6. eagerness, vehemence. 7. vogue, fad, fashion, craze. 9, 10. rave, fume, storm.
—Antonyms 1. calm.
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| rage
(rāj) Pronunciation Key
n.
intr.v. raged, rag·ing, rag·es
[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin rabia, from Latin rabiēs, from rabere, to be mad.] |
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rage (n.)
rage (n.)
1297, from O.Fr. raige (11c.), from M.L. rabia, from L. rabies "madness, rage, fury," related to rabere "be mad, rave." Related to rabies, of which this is the original sense. Similarly, Welsh (cynddaredd) and Breton (kounnar) words for "rage, fury" originally meant "hydrophobia" and are compounds based on the word for "dog" (Welsh ci, plural cwn; Breton ki). The verb is c.1250, originally "to play, romp;" meaning "be furious" first recorded c.1300. The rage "fashion, vogue" dates from 1785.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| rage | |
noun | |
| 1. | a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury] |
| 2. | a state of extreme anger; "she fell into a rage and refused to answer" |
| 3. | something that is desired intensely; "his rage for fame destroyed him" |
| 4. | violent state of the elements; "the sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks" |
| 5. | an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season" [syn: fad] |
verb | |
| 1. | behave violently, as if in state of a great anger [syn: ramp] |
| 2. | be violent; as of fires and storms |
| 3. | feel intense anger; "Rage against the dying of the light!" |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Rage
Rage\, n. [F., fr. L. rabies, fr. rabere to rave; cf. Skr. rabh to seize, rabhas violence. Cf. Rabid, Rabies, Rave.]1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." --Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. --Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief. --Hawthorne. 2. Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury. torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. --Milton. 3. A violent or raging wind. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 4. The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage. Syn: Anger; vehemence; excitement; passion; fury. See Anger.
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Rage
Rage\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Raged; p. pr. & vb. n. Raging.] [OF. ragier. See Rage, n.]1. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion. "Whereat he inly raged." --Milton. When one so great begins to rage, he a hunted Even to falling. --Shak. 2. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds. Why do the heathen rage ? --Ps. ii. 1. The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise. --Milton. 3. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo. 4. To toy or act wantonly; to sport. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Syn: To storm; fret; chafe; fume.
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Rage
Rage\, v. t. To enrage. [Obs.] --Shak.
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