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Websters 1828 Dictionary

Rage RAGE, n. [Heb. to grind or gnash the teeth.]
1. Violent anger accompanied with furious words, gestures or agitation; anger excited to fury. Passion sometimes rises to rage.
Torment and loud lament and furious rage.
2. Vehemence or violent exacerbation of any thing painful; as the rage of pain; the rage of a fever; the rage of hunger or thirst.
3. Fury; extreme violence; as the rage of a tempest.
4. Enthusiasm; rapture.
Who brought green poesy to her perfect age, and made that art which was a rage.
5. Extreme eagerness or passion directed to some object; as the rage for money.
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live.
RAGE, v.i.
1. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
At this he inly rag'd.
2. To be violent and tumultuous.
Why do the heathen rage? Psa 2.
3. To be violently driven or agitated; as the raging sea or winds.
4. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with fatal effect; as, the plague rages in Cairo.
5. To be driven with impetuosity; to act or move furiously.
The chariots shall rage in the streets. Nahum 2.
The madding wheels of brazen chariots rag'd.
6. To toy wantonly; to sport. [Not in use.]




WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005)

rage n 1: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury, rage, madness] 2: a state of extreme anger; "she fell into a rage and refused to answer" 3: something that is desired intensely; "his rage for fame destroyed him" [syn: rage, passion] 4: violent state of the elements; "the sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks" 5: an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season" [syn: fad, craze, furor, furore, cult, rage] v 1: behave violently, as if in state of a great anger [syn: ramp, rage, storm] 2: be violent; as of fires and storms 3: feel intense anger; "Rage against the dying of the light!"

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003)

rage I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin rabia, from Latin rabies rage, madness, from rabere to be mad; akin to Sanskrit rabhas violence Date: 14th century 1. a. violent and uncontrolled anger b. a fit of violent wrath c. archaic insanity 2. violent action (as of wind or sea) 3. an intense feeling ; passion 4. a fad pursued with intense enthusiasm <was all the rage> Synonyms: see anger, fashion II. intransitive verb (raged; raging) Date: 14th century 1. to be in a rage 2. to be in tumult 3. to prevail uncontrollably

Oxford English Reference Dictionary

rage
n. & v.
--n.
1 fierce or violent anger.
2 a fit of this (flew into a rage).
3 the violent action of a natural force (the rage of the storm).
4 (foll. by for) a a vehement desire or passion. b a widespread temporary enthusiasm or fashion.
5 poet. poetic, prophetic, or martial enthusiasm or ardour.
6 sl. a lively frolic.
--v.intr.
1 be full of anger.
2 (often foll. by at, against) speak furiously or madly; rave.
3 (of wind, battle, fever, etc.) be violent; be at its height; continue unchecked.
4 Austral. sl. seek enjoyment; go on a spree.
Phrases and idioms:
all the rage popular, fashionable.
Etymology: ME f. OF rager ult. f. L RABIES


Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary

rage (rages, raging, raged) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Rage is strong anger that is difficult to control. He was red-cheeked with rage... I flew into a rage... = fury N-VAR 2. You say that something powerful or unpleasant rages when it continues with great force or violence. Train services were halted as the fire raged for more than four hours... The war rages on and the time has come to take sides. VERB: V, V on 3. If you rage about something, you speak or think very angrily about it. Monroe was on the phone, raging about her mistreatment by the brothers... Inside, Frannie was raging... 'I can't see it's any of your business,' he raged. VERB: V about/against/at n, V, V with quote 4. You can refer to the strong anger that someone feels in a particular situation as a particular rage, especially when this results in violent or aggressive behaviour. Cabin crews are reporting up to nine cases of air rage a week. N-UNCOUNT: n N see also road rage 5. When something is popular and fashionable, you can say that it is the rage or all the rage. (INFORMAL) The 1950s look is all the rage at the moment. N-SING: the N 6. see also raging

English Explanatory Dictionary

rage reɪdʒ n. & v. --n. 1 fierce or violent anger. 2 a fit of this (flew into a rage). 3 the violent action of a natural force (the rage of the storm). 4 (foll. by for) a a vehement desire or passion. b a widespread temporary enthusiasm or fashion. 5 poet. poetic, prophetic, or martial enthusiasm or ardour. 6 sl. a lively frolic. --v.intr. 1 be full of anger. 2 (often foll. by at, against) speak furiously or madly; rave. 3 (of wind, battle, fever, etc.) be violent; be at its height; continue unchecked. 4 Austral. sl. seek enjoyment; go on a spree. øall the rage popular, fashionable. [ME f. OF rager ult. f. L RABIES]

English-Old English dictionary

rage
rabbian, grimman, grymetian, styrman

Big Comprehensive Abbreviation Dictionary

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Big Comprehensive Abbreviation Dictionary

rage
Receptor For Advanced Glycation End
Random Activation Gene Expression
Real Arcade Game Emulator
Radiation Adaptive Grid Eulerian
Radically Anointed God Encounters
Redeeming A Generation For Eternity
Reaching A Generation For Eternity
Radically Altered Genetic Enigma

Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations

Rage Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire DRYDEN: Alex. Feast, Line 160.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rage \Rage\, n. [F., fr. L. rabies, fr. rabere to rave; cf. Skr. rabh to seize, rabhas violence. Cf. Rabid, Rabies, Rave.] 1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. ``In great rage of pain.'' --Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. --Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief. --Hawthorne. 2. Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury. torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. --Milton. 3. A violent or raging wind. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 4. The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage. Syn: Anger; vehemence; excitement; passion; fury. See Anger.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rage \Rage\, v. t. To enrage. [Obs.] --Shak.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rage \Rage\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Raged; p. pr. & vb. n. Raging.] [OF. ragier. See Rage, n.] 1. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion. ``Whereat he inly raged.'' --Milton. When one so great begins to rage, he a hunted Even to falling. --Shak. 2. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds. Why do the heathen rage ? --Ps. ii. 1. The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise. --Milton. 3. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo. 4. To toy or act wantonly; to sport. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Syn: To storm; fret; chafe; fume.

Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms

rage I. n. 1. Fury, frenzy, wrath, vehemence, excitement, passion, madness, raving, violent anger, furor. 2. Extreme eagerness, vehement desire. 3. Enthusiasm, rapture. 4. (Colloq.) Fashion, vogue, mode. II. v. n. 1. Rave, storm, fume, fret, chafe, be violent, be furious. 2. Ravage, prevail without restraint.

English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms)

rage reɪdʒ n. 1 anger, fury, wrath, ire, high dudgeon, exasperation, vehemence, passion: Imagine her rage when Simon phoned to say that he couldn't make it home for dinner! 2 fury, passion, frenzy, hysterics, tantrum, fit, temper, Brit paddy or paddywhack or paddywack, Colloq Brit wax: He flies into a rage if Grace is as little as five minutes late for an appointment. 3 fashion, craze, vogue, the (latest or newest) thing, last word, dernier cri, mode, Colloq fad: Miniskirts were all the rage in the 1960s. --v. 4 rant, rave, storm, go mad or crazy or bonkers or wild or out of one's mind, go berserk, run amok or amuck, behave or act or be like one possessed, fret, be beside oneself (with anger or fury), lose one's temper, go berserk, have a tantrum, fulminate, explode; fume, foam at the mouth, stew, smoulder, boil, seethe, simmer, Colloq have kittens, lose one's cool, fly off the handle, go off the deep end, Slang get into or work oneself up into a lather or stew or sweat, get all worked up, blow one's top, blow a gasket, blow up, flip one's top or lid, hit the ceiling or roof, freak out, be fit to be tied, be ready for a strait-jacket, Brit throw a wobbly, US and Canadian blow one's stack, flip one's wig, blow a fuse, have a haemorrhage, go ape, do a slow burn, have a conniption fit: Father raged for hours when he found that Donald had borrowed the car without permission.

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

266 Moby Thesaurus words for "rage": Alecto, Megaera, Nemesis, Tisiphone, abandon, acerbity, acrimony, agitation, amok, anger, asperity, assault, attack, babble, barbarize, batter, be angry, be excitable, be insane, be livid, be pissed, bellow, blast, blow, blow a fuse, blow a gasket, blow a hurricane, blow great guns, blow over, blow up, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, boil, boil over, bounce, brag, brawl, breeze, breeze up, brew, bristle, broil, brouhaha, browned off, brutalize, bug, bully, burn, burning rage, butcher, cacophony, caprice, carry on, cat fit, catch fire, catch the infection, chafe, chaos, chic, come apart, come up, commotion, conceit, conniption, conniption fit, convulsion, craze, crazy fancy, crotchet, cry, delirium, destroy, disturbance, dote, drivel, drool, duck fit, ebullition, ecstasy, embroilment, enthusiasm, exasperation, excite easily, explode, fad, faddiness, faddishness, faddism, faddist, fanaticism, fancy, fascination, fashion, ferment, fever, fire and fury, fire up, fit, fit of anger, fit of temper, flame up, flap, flare up, flash up, flip, fomentation, foofaraw, freak, freak out, frenzy, freshen, fret, fulminate, fume, furious rage, furor, furore, fury, fuss, gasconade, gather, get excited, go ape, go berserk, go into hysterics, go on, hammer, have a conniption, have a demon, have a tantrum, hector, high dudgeon, hit the ceiling, hubbub, huff, hysteria, hysterics, indignation, infatuation, intimidate, intoxication, ire, last word, lay waste, loot, mad, madness, mania, manic-depressive psychosis, maul, mode, mug, murderous insanity, novelty, orgasm, orgy, out-herod Herod, paddy, pandemonium, paroxysm, passion, perturbation, pillage, pipe up, pissed off, psychokinesia, puff, racket, raise Cain, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, ramble, ramp, rampage, rant, rant and rave, rape, rapture, rave, ravishment, riot, roar, roister, rollick, row, ruckus, ruin, rumpus, run a temperature, run amok, run mad, sack, savage, seethe, seizure, set in, simmer, sizzle, slang, slaughter, slaver, slobber, smoke, smolder, smoulder, sow chaos, spasm, splutter, sputter, squall, stew, storm, storminess, style, swagger, swashbuckle, take fire, take on, tantrum, tear, tear around, tearing passion, temper, temper tantrum, tempestuousness, terrorize, the Erinyes, the Eumenides, the Furies, the last word, the latest thing, the latest wrinkle, the rage, the thing, throw a fit, towering rage, transport, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, turmoil, turn a hair, uproar, upset, vagary, vandalize, vapor, vehemence, violate, violence, vogue, waft, wander, wax, whiff, whiffle, whim, wildness, worn-out, wrath, wreck, wrinkle, zeal, zealousness


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