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rabid

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adjective

irrationally extreme in opinion or practice: a rabid isolationist; a rabid baseball fan.

furious or raging; violently intense: a rabid hunger.

affected with or pertaining to rabies; mad.

Origin:
1605–15; < Latin rabidus raving, furious, mad, equivalent to rab(ere) to rave, be mad + -idus -id⁴

Related forms

rab·id·i·ty

[ruh-bid-i-tee, ra-] , rab·id·ness, noun

rab·id·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. zealous, fervent, ardent, fanatical, bigoted.

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Example Sentences

Rabies is a rare but potentially deadly disease spread through the saliva of a rabid animal.

Quite true there are sharks here, but certain of these educational lenders are rabid and raging sharks.

Closed primaries, he says, force candidates to appeal to a rabid ideological base.

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Rabies is a rare but potentially deadly disease spread through the saliva of a rabid animal.

Quite true there are sharks here, but certain of these educational lenders are rabid and raging sharks.

Closed primaries, he says, force candidates to appeal to a rabid ideological base.

Yours, and the general public's fear of nuclear power is understandable given the rabid press these incidents entail.

Volkswagen is returning to rallying with a pocket rocket that's cuter than a puppy and meaner than a rabid mutt.

For although not all bites from a rabid animal lead to infection, you won't know if you've been infected or not.

Coal being a little less cheap won't make people go rabid over energy prices.

Hey dwbd, your incessant attacks are no different than a rabid pit bull, and your nookular blogs are still poor sources of facts.

There are also plenty of rabid music industry lawyers with a history of going to great lengths to prosecute copyright violators.

Rabid sports fans have more to worry about than the final score.

Rabid anti-Westernism is the leitmotiv of the new ideology.

He was a rabid segregationist, blocking civil rights legislation at every turn.

On trade, the congressional leadership is less rabid than many of the new arrivals.

It also means softening the party's rabid opposition to further regional devolution.

The rabid crowds, the cutthroat jockeying for position, the.

Nintendo is all about making their systems and franchises equally visible to rabid gamers as well as the blissfully uninitiated.

But none of these seem to explain the rabid enthusiasm with which the film has been.

Bernard who, after being bitten by a rabid bat, becomes a good deal less lovable.

Meanwhile, rabid monetarists claim that the economy will tank without.

Ford eagerly accepted it, as he was a rabid anti-Semite.

J, a rabid reporter who suspects the district attorney of fabricating evidence.

More often these come from the rabid nationalist camp.

Roth convinces as an increasingly rabid special-ops officer hankering for a more youthful body so he can do some real damage.

Sure, rabid female fans are in the stands at women's professional basketball and soccer games.

Both sides have cadres of highly motivated and rabid activists.

Lawrence then gets bitten by an unseen rabid beast at a gypsy encampment.

Although the number of rabid deer is relatively small.

Most open source veterans take rabid flaming in stride.

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World English Dictionary

rabid (ˈræbɪd, ˈreɪ-)

—*adj*
1.	relating to or having rabies
2.	zealous; fanatical; violent; raging

[C17: from Latin rabidus frenzied, mad, from rabere to be mad]

rabidity

—n

'rabidness

—n

'rabidly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

rabid

1611, "furious, raving," from L. rabidus, from rabere "be mad, rave" (see rage). Meaning "made mad by rabies" first recorded 1804.

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Medical Dictionary

rabid rab·id (rāb'ĭd)
adj.
Of or affected by rabies.

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"The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful levers for keeping us upright and making us progress. On the other hand, if men are deprived of that feeling, they are changed into rabid dogs."

-Albert Camus

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