rave
verb (used without object)
to talk wildly, as in delirium.
am raving
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present progressiveof rave (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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You think I am raving," he said, "that this cave of gold exists only in the disordered fancy of a dying man.
From The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49 by Everett McNeil
"Perhaps I am raving; perhaps I am raving," Pyotr Stepanovitch assented, speaking rapidly.
From The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One would say that I am raving over a gown as I do over the man I love.
From Marie Bashkirtseff (From Childhood to Girlhood) by Marie Bashkirtseff
I am ever so much obliged to you—but I declare I am raving like a maniac,” he interrupted himself with a queer smile that forthwith lapsed into an expression of rage.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan
He has just burst out laughing, and says that I am raving.
From The Idiot by Eva M. Martin
