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
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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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
sonofgroucho commented on the word rage
I love this little word, although it's not my most attractive feature.
December 17, 2007