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rage

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noun

angry fury; violent anger.

a fit of violent anger.

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

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

a violent desire or passion.

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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.

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verb (used without object)

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

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to move, rush, dash, or surge furiously.

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

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

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Idiom

13.

all the rage, widely popular or in style.

Origin:
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)

Related forms

rage·ful, 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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Example Sentences

Politics, rage and the myth of individual liberty.

The last thing you want to convey to search committees is desperation or rage.

Science books for the general reader are all the rage.

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Politics, rage and the myth of individual liberty.

The last thing you want to convey to search committees is desperation or rage.

Science books for the general reader are all the rage.

Volcanoes brings you the shocking first-person reports of those who have witnessed the violent rage of a volcanic eruption.

Wildfires can quickly rage out of control, wreaking destruction for miles.

Solving mysteries with the stars was all the rage in his retirement community.

Hellebores have been all the rage for several years now and with good reason.

Free, ad-supported music is all the rage these days.

Mentor hopes, protect the innocent dishes from kitchen rage.

Arguments rage for days-decades-after the final whistle.

When hurricanes rage over the ocean, they also form a spiral.

Not to mention some possibility of unaccepted emotions and needs resulting in rage that is turned inwards in a form of self-hate.

Moreover, he had no apparent reason to rage against the establishment.

Eco-friendly phones are all the rage among handset makers now.

All the rage at raves, light sticks are also used by commercial fishers to attract fish.

In the future, fossil evidence may come forward with a little more caution, but the dino-bird debate will surely rage on.

The movie tells the story of a curse that befalls people who die in the grip of a powerful rage.

There is much impotent rage being expressed by the public.

I've missed out on much of the outpouring of rage over my magazine article.

Often played for laughs, road rage is a real phenomenon with serious consequences for driver safety and society.

One man's rage against the communication revolution and the dying of civility.

Is cell rage replacing road rage as the social sore point.

It pisses off other drivers, potentially leading to road rage and all sorts of nasty things.

Floods sweep through one state while wildfires rage in another.

His diary dramatically describes his wife's recurring paroxysms of rage after she discovered him dallying with her personal maid.

It's all the rage for superpowers to shoot down satellites.

Actually, holding her till she gets her rage out of her system does usually work pretty well.

At times he was almost shouting, and when he alluded to his detractors' theories, his eyes blazed with rage.

Some cases of road rage may be incidents of a larger syndrome now being called intermittent explosive disorder.

Bold patterns may be all the rage this season, but they can easily overwhelm the image.

But having a doctorate does not confer immunity from academic rage.

Best advice is to take your time and leave any road rage at home.

Side” video provides a guide to all the things necessary to turn your obsession into an all-consuming, power-hungry rage.

People often underestimate the amount of rage narcissists are capable of producing.

The suggestion, as do so many things, spurs a fit of rage.

Then in a jealous rage the chimp attempted to pull off her.

Their leaders of course have harnessed this rage to empower themselves.

It would not be unusual for that child to build up such a fund of rage that it boiled over from time to time.

Once there is contact, pull your head back and roar in mock rage.

In the meantime there are hundreds of people boiling with rage and vitriol towards her.

Her feelings of rejection and rage were allowed to ferment.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

rage (reɪdʒ)

—n
1.	intense anger; fury
2.	violent movement or action, esp of the sea, wind, etc
3.	great intensity of hunger, sexual desire, or other feelings
4.	aggressive behaviour associated with a specified environment or activity: road rage; school rage
5.	a fashion or craze (esp in the phrase all the rage)
6.	informal (Austral), (NZ) a dance or party

—vb
7.	to feel or exhibit intense anger
8.	(esp of storms, fires, etc) to move or surge with great violence
9.	(esp of a disease or epidemic) to spread rapidly and uncontrollably
10.	informal (Austral), (NZ) to have a good time

[C13: via Old French from Latin rabiēs madness]

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

rage

c.1300, 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

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based on the word for "dog" (Welsh ci, plural cwn; Breton ki). The verb is mid-13c., originally "to play, romp;" meaning "be furious" first recorded c.1300. The rage "fashion, vogue" dates from 1785.

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Slang Dictionary

rage definition

in.
to party; to celebrate. (Collegiate.) : Fred and Mary were raging over at the frat house last weekend.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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