rage
noun
angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination).
had raged
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past perfectof rage.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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None of the nominees had been major box office blockbusters, and in the case of “Crash” controversy had raged over several PGA-credited producers not being permitted to receive a statue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
Iran’s deputy interior minister, Majid Mirahmadi, said on state television that the fighting had raged for hours, from 10 p.m.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
It said he had been wounded in Bakhmut, the city in Donetsk province that Prigozhin said Wagner had taken in mid-May, after a battle that had raged since last year.
From Reuters ● May 31, 2023
Internationally he reached arms control deals with the US, refused to intervene when eastern European nations rose up against their Communist rulers, and ended the bloody Soviet war in Afghanistan that had raged since 1979.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2022
At first the rat leader had raged and sworn.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
