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rage

[ reyj ]

noun

  1. angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):

    a speech full of rage;

    incidents of road rage.

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  2. a fit of violent anger:

    Her rages usually don't last too long.

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

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  4. violence of feeling, desire, or appetite:

    the rage of thirst.

  5. a violent desire or passion.
  6. ardor; fervor; enthusiasm:

    poetic rage.

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  7. the object of widespread enthusiasm, as for being popular or fashionable:

    Raccoon coats were the rage on campus.

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  8. Archaic. insanity.


verb (used without object)

raged, raging.
  1. to act or speak with fury; show or feel violent anger; fulminate.

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  2. to move, rush, dash, or surge furiously.

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  3. to proceed, continue, or prevail with great violence:

    The battle raged ten days.

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

rage

/ ɪ /

noun

  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.
    a dance or party
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to feel or exhibit intense anger
  2. (esp of storms, fires, etc) to move or surge with great violence
  3. (esp of a disease or epidemic) to spread rapidly and uncontrollably
  4. informal.
    to have a good time
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • fܱ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of rage1

First recorded in 1250–1300; (for the noun) Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin rabia, Latin ŧ “madness” ( rabies ( def ) ), derivative of rabere “to be mad, rave”; verb derivative of the noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of rage1

C13: via Old French from Latin ŧ madness
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. all the rage, widely popular or in style.

More idioms and phrases containing rage

see all the rage .
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Synonym Study

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Example Sentences

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He said he was "proper raging" and "boiled" and the accusations would ruin his life and business, adding he was "going to deal" with those who put his name forward.

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I agree with Dylan Thomas that we must rage against the dying of the light, but the crucial work now is formulating what the eventual new dawn can bring, and how to build that.

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“Fusions are all the rage in modern cooking and dining,” she wrote.

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When someone's rage is justified, such as when their family member has been disappeared to an El Salvadoran gulag for Kristi Noem's photo shoot, it's unsettling.

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"But I want to turn the rage that I feel into ensuring that we stand with the Filipino community," he said in front of a police cruiser blocking access to the crime scene.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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