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rage
[ reyj ]
noun
- angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
a speech full of rage;
incidents of road rage.
Synonyms: madness, ire, passion, frenzy, wrath
Antonyms: calm
- a fit of violent anger:
Her rages usually don't last too long.
- fury or violence of wind, waves, fire, disease, etc.
Synonyms: turbulence
- 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)
- 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.
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 activity
road rage
school rage
- a fashion or craze (esp in the phrase all the rage )
- informal.a dance or party
verb
- 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
- informal.to have a good time
Other Words From
- rageful adjective
- raging·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of rage1
Word History and Origins
Origin of rage1
Idioms and Phrases
- all the rage, widely popular or in style.
More idioms and phrases containing rage
see all the rage .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Even as negotiations over a potential ceasefire are ongoing, fighting has raged in Ukraine.
She added that the decision "actively harms nature. It actively harms the environment. And, with war once again raging in Europe, to actively harm our food production is reckless beyond belief".
She has accused him of of attacking her in a "manic rage" without provocation in April 2024, leaving her with concussion, neck and throat injuries, dental and abdominal trauma, and PTSD.
"But it turned me into this raging woman who kept taking sexual addiction further."
Rather than focusing on the war raging in Ukraine, the US vice-president only briefly mentioned the bloodiest European conflict since World War Two.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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