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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.

11.

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

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

Chalk all this up to rich-country investors' raging thirst for risk.

Raging hormones might help explain why female emperor penguins that have lost a baby sometimes kidnap the chick of another.

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

Chalk all this up to rich-country investors' raging thirst for risk.

Raging hormones might help explain why female emperor penguins that have lost a baby sometimes kidnap the chick of another.

My biggest fear is that his raging will open himself up for abuse with whomever will be his parents.

He rendered the scene in a palette of solemn gray, brown and ocher, with raging seas and menacing skies dominating the picture.

There's a battle raging at airports and on airliners, and it all comes down to baggage.

But as the raging debate over for-profits shows, the era of easy money and lax regulation is ending.

Australia's economy has been broadly protected from the economic storm raging in the rest of the world.

It takes a wrangler's spirit, fleet feet, and no small share of technical expertise to grab data from a raging tornado.

It also caused landslides and mudslides and raging floods in the area, which caused roads to crumble away.

The next fall, raging gales set the ship adrift and then drove her into an iceberg, damaging her hull.

Iraq cooled from a raging boil to a slow simmer, thanks mostly to tactics taken from the military's counterinsurgency manual.

If not raging over something, they would seem in danger of collapsing into inner emptiness.

In the process, many of them finally learned to dread the death of a raging bull.

Race into the path of a raging twister and experience one of nature's mightiest storms up close.

These cells are microscopic bodies being swept along in this raging torrent.

Kurds provide their own security and, with some bloody exceptions, have deflected the strife raging around them.

But after every good party comes the raging hangover.

Not the heavy, raging body-building type, but dumbbell free weight lifting.

In any event, a debate is raging among the protesters over what to do next.

Watch as adventurous tourists conquer their fears-in and out of the boat-among the river's raging rapids.

The creek pipes and storm sewers overflowed, blowing out manhole covers and turning streets into chest-deep raging rivers.

His dream is to drive his car straight in, hit the brakes, and park dead in the middle of a raging twister.

She seems unflustered by the tempests raging around her.

It takes fleet feet and expertise to grab data from a raging tornado.

There is currently a debate raging over the safety of bovine growth hormone.

In one scene, players must tap the screen to fight off a hundred raging bulls.

But they are raging against the dying of their light.

The photo was taken as a kayaker plunged over a rapid into the raging water.

May you resolve the contradictions raging beneath the surface and live a serene and peaceful life.

It gave them their first glimpse into the still raging inferno.

The snowmelt, combined with heavy rains, swept a raging river over roads.

But raging hormones can eventually wreck investors' ability to think rationally.

Maybe you decided to keep that amorous rooster or maybe you have a raging chicken-rescuing complex.

The raging waters swept through dense terrain in the middle of the night while many campers slept.

Let those blizzards with their raging winds pound the four layers of plastic glazing outside.

Anyone, at any time, can fall victim to nature's raging furies.

Some police heard fellow officers' final cries for help over police radios as they drowned in raging floodwaters.

And it's in a neighborhood that is raging with giant street.

The snow-capped mountains and raging torrents of water really are as.

Yet in the peculiar battle that is now raging over the budget for a fiscal year already half.

He presaged an argument that is raging almost two and a half centuries later.

Rarely has a piece of environmental legislation achieved such raging success.

Debate is now raging over whether climate change will further reduce the world's ability to feed itself.

But challenge-response systems have provoked raging debate in technical circles.

Raging against the dying of the light now has powerful technological allies.

But all the hype has not eliminated the raging controversy that has surrounded the testing world for years.

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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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"They went to him and woke him up, shouting, "Master, Master, we are perishing!" And he woke up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves; they ceased, and there was a calm. He said to them, "Where is your faith?" They were afraid and amazed, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?""

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