rage

[ reyj ]

/ reɪdʒ /

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noun

angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage;incidents of road rage.

a fit of violent anger: Her rages usually don't last too long.

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

violence of feeling, desire, or appetite: the rage of thirst.

a violent desire or passion.

ardor; fervor; enthusiasm: poetic rage.

the object of widespread enthusiasm, as for being popular or fashionable: Raccoon coats were the rage on campus.

Archaic. insanity.

verb (used without object), raged, rag·ing.

to act or speak with fury; show or feel violent anger; fulminate.

to move, rush, dash, or surge furiously.

to proceed, continue, or prevail with great violence: The battle raged ten days.

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

SYNONYMS FOR rage

1 wrath, frenzy, passion, ire, madness.

3 turbulence.

6 eagerness, vehemence.

7 vogue, fad, fashion, craze.

9, 10 rave, fume, storm.

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ANTONYMS FOR rage

1 calm.

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Idioms for rage

all the rage, widely popular or in style.

Origin of rage

1250–1300; (noun) Middle English <Old French <Late Latin rabia,Latin rabiēs madness, rage, derivative of rabere to rage; (v.) ragen<Old French ragier, derivative of rage (noun)

synonym study for rage

1. See anger.

OTHER WORDS FROM rage

rageful, adjectiverag·ing·ly, adverb

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The difference was that these first suffragists, from more privileged backgrounds than Norman’s, knew how to channel their considerable rage into words.
A shocking 19th-century crime reveals the continued need for gender equality|Julie Miller|December 27, 2020|Washington Post
Meanwhile at home the nation’s mood is increasingly tense and angry as Americans are bombarded all day, every day with a constant stream of news about protests, boycotts, disruption, despair and rage.
Dave Barry’s Year in Review 2020|Dave Barry|December 27, 2020|Washington Post
So-called robo-advisers may be all the rage, but Sequoia Capital is betting that humans will still hold a prominent place in helping people make investment decisions.
Vise, a company founded by two high school graduates, raises $45 million in funding with Sequoia at the helm|Lucinda Shen|December 15, 2020|Fortune
For many, she says, the “excuses were perhaps political, but their rage, and denial, and fear seemed more about deep sadness regarding their loss of control, and all the other pain and grief they’ve been carrying around.”
The story behind ‘And the People Stayed Home,’ the little poem that became so much more|Nora Krug|December 10, 2020|Washington Post

Social constructivists were all the rage and that collision with my scientific world view was a real challenge.
Five Scientists on the Heroes Who Changed Their Lives - Issue 93: Forerunners|Alan Lightman, Hope Jahren, Robert Sapolsky,|December 2, 2020|Nautilus
Ford Madox Ford raged against English novelists from Henry Fielding to George Meredith.
The Birth of the Novel|Nick Romeo|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Where will they seek shelter in times of war, like the fighting that has raged in Gaza for almost three weeks?
Inside the Gaza Schoolyard Massacre|Jesse Rosenfeld|July 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He attacked the EPA and raged against Fast and Furious and the IRS.
The Bizarro World Of Iowa’s GOP Convention|Ben Jacobs|June 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A fire in the cockpit had raged out of control in a matter of minutes and the pilots lost control.
Can Anyone Find MH370 If It’s in a Million Pieces?|Clive Irving|April 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Rep. Steve King raged that this would allow illegals to “smuggle themselves into the military.”
Even a Path to Citizenship for Military Volunteers Is Too Much for House Republicans|Ben Jacobs|April 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He is right furious thereat, and raged for two days like a madman, so that I durst not venture near him.
The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn|Evelyn Everett-Green
I knew that I was only temporizing, and raged inwardly at myself.
The Professor's Mystery|Wells Hastings
This epidemic broke out in England about the end of April and raged until the end of June.
A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I|Various
Incidentally a contest of factions began which raged hotly to the end.
The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume I (of 2)|George Cary Eggleston
Around this dim legendary figure a great deal of learned controversy has raged.
Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria|Lewis Spence

British Dictionary definitions for rage

rage

/ (reɪdʒ) /

noun

intense anger; fury

violent movement or action, esp of the sea, wind, etc

great intensity of hunger, sexual desire, or other feelings

aggressive behaviour associated with a specified environment or activityroad rage; school rage

a fashion or craze (esp in the phrase all the rage)

Australian and NZ informal a dance or party

verb (intr)

to feel or exhibit intense anger

(esp of storms, fires, etc) to move or surge with great violence

(esp of a disease or epidemic) to spread rapidly and uncontrollably

Australian and NZ informal to have a good time

Word Origin for rage

C13: via Old French from Latin rabiēs madness

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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