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rage

[reyj] noun, verb, raged, rag⋅ing.
–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.
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.)


rageful, adjective
rag⋅ing⋅ly, adverb


1. wrath, frenzy, passion, ire, madness. See anger. 3. turbulence. 6. eagerness, vehemence. 7. vogue, fad, fashion, craze. 9, 10. rave, fume, storm.


1. calm.
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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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