Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Violent, explosive anger. synonym: anger.
- noun A fit of anger.
- noun Furious intensity, as of a storm or disease.
- noun A burning desire; a passion.
- noun A current, eagerly adopted fashion; a fad or craze.
- intransitive verb To speak or act in violent anger.
- intransitive verb To move with great violence or intensity.
- intransitive verb To spread or prevail forcefully.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be furious with anger; be excited to fury; be violently agitated with passion of any kind.
- To speak with passionate utterance, or act with furious vehemence; storm; rave.
- To act violently; move impetuously; be violently driven or agitated; have furious course or effect: said of things: as, a raging fever; the storm rages; war is raging.
- To frolic wantonly; play; frisk; romp.
- To be very eager or anxious.
- To enrage; chafe; fret.
- noun Madness; insanity; an access of maniacal violence.
- noun Violent anger manifested in language or action; indignation or resentment excited to fury and expressed in furious words and gestures, with agitation.
- noun Extreme violence of operation or effect; intensity of degree, force, or urgency: used of things or conditions: as, the rage of a storm or of the sea; the rage of fever or of thirst.
- noun Vehement emotion; generous ardor or enthusiasm; passionate utterance or eloquence.
- noun Vehement desire or pursuit; ardent eagerness, as for the attainment or accomplishment of something; engrossing tendency or propensity: as, the rage for speculation, for social distinction, etc.
- noun An object of general and eager desire or pursuit; fashion; vogue; fad: as, music is now all the rage.
- noun A violent wind.
- noun Synonyms Vexation, Indignation, etc. (see
anger ); frenzy, madness, raving.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.
- noun Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.
- noun obsolete A violent or raging wind.
- noun The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion.
- transitive verb obsolete To enrage.
- intransitive verb To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
- intransitive verb To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously.
- intransitive verb To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect.
- intransitive verb obsolete To toy or act wantonly; to sport.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Violent uncontrolled anger . - noun A
current fashion orfad . - verb intransitive To act or speak in heightened anger.
- verb intransitive To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
- verb obsolete To
enrage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be violent; as of fires and storms
- verb feel intense anger
- noun a state of extreme anger
- noun a feeling of intense anger
- verb behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
- noun an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
- noun something that is desired intensely
- noun violent state of the elements
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Every kind of licentious language and actions was practised in the worship of these deities, accompanied with a frantic rage called orgies, from the Greek word for _rage_.
The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) Nehemiah Adams 1842
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I would love to know from any French readers whether admin rage is really claiming so many lives.
More From The Writing Group « Tales from the Reading Room 2009
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He started his quest with an Internet search of the word rage and got a smorgasbord of terms: road rage, air rage, retail rage, computer rage, travel and leisure rage.
Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us Emily Yellin 2009
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What seems to be fueling this rage is a fear of the loss of authority — a changing of the guard.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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What seems to be fueling this rage is a fear of the loss of authority — a changing of the guard.
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You're home life must be really bad when the only outlet you have to vent your rage is a political blog.
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Finding ways to express themselves and their rage is an endless pursuit.
A New Stereotype of West Virginia Christians Andrew Beckner 2008
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I wasn't having a go at you or Daubney, n, my rage is aimed at the sick rabble - some of them very educated rabble too - on some of these forums who will not allow justice to take its course.
The Best Possible taste Newmania 2008
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Finding ways to express themselves and their rage is an endless pursuit.
Archive 2008-06-01 Andrew Beckner 2008
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Congressman opens hearing on Islamic radicalization, says 'rage and hysteria' unwarranted sns-ap-us-muslims-terror-hearings WASHINGTON AP - Under heightened security, Rep. Peter King opened hearings Thursday into Islamic radicalization in America, dismissing what he called the "rage and hysteria" surrounding the hearings.
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In 1992, Schmidt was studying the complications of diabetes when she and her team made what she calls a startling discovery: Humans and other mammals have a protein on the surface of fat cells called the receptor for advanced glycation end products, or RAGE, which appeared to play previously unobserved roles in a host of the body’s metabolic and inflammatory responses.
A Potential Hidden Factor in Why People Have So Much Trouble Losing Weight Amanda Mull 2019
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Recently I visited a rage room. Normally the idea of smashing glass objects with a baseball bat wouldn’t appeal to me, but I was intrigued when I heard that the majority of rage room customers were women.
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I'm sorry but this is sooo ridiculous. Its popular with students because you can chug liquor on the street. It is nowhere near as easy to control the amount of alcohol. Its literally called a blackout rage gallon.
St Paddy’s Parade Borg police Suff_erin_g 2025
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A “borg,” also known as a blackout rage gallon, is a mixed drink made in a plastic gallon jug, generally containing water, vodka, and flavored drink mix.
At least 13 people facing charges, slew of ‘borgs’ seized during St. Patrick’s Day parade in Boston Frank O’Laughlin 2025
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BORG is an acronym that stands for “blackout rage gallon.” BORG is so-named because it contains enough alcohol in one container to allow for a full night of drinking.
#BORG: The Latest TikTok Drinking Trend Cleveland Clinic 2024
sonofgroucho commented on the word rage
I love this little word, although it's not my most attractive feature.
December 17, 2007