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rage

  [reyj] noun, verb, raged, rag⋅ing.
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–noun
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.
–verb (used without object)
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.
—Idiom
13. all the rage, widely popular or in style.
Origin:
1250–1300; (n.) ME < OF < LL rabia, L rabiēs 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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rage   (rāj)   
n.  
    1. Violent, explosive anger. See Synonyms at anger.
    2. A fit of anger.
  2. Furious intensity, as of a storm or disease.
  3. A burning desire; a passion.
  4. A current, eagerly adopted fashion; a fad or craze: when torn jeans were all the rage.
intr.v.   raged, rag·ing, rag·es
  1. To speak or act in violent anger: raged at the mindless bureaucracy.
  2. To move with great violence or intensity: A storm raged through the mountains.
  3. To spread or prevail forcefully: The plague raged for months.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin rabia, from Latin rabiēs, from rabere, to be mad.]
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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.

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.

Rage

Rage\, v. t. To enrage. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Language Translation for : Rage
Spanish: rabia, ira, furia,
German: die Wut,
Japanese: 激怒
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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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Main Entry: rage
Pronunciation: 'rAj
Function: noun
: violent and uncontrolled anger
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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rage

see all the rage.

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