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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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: rage
Pronunciation: 'rAj
Function: noun
: violent and uncontrolled anger
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Idioms & Phrases

rage

see all the rage.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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