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Webster 1913 Edition
Rage
Rage
(rāj)
, Noun.
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
. Rage
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Raged
(rājd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Raging
(rā′jĭng)
.] 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
Even to falling.
rage
, he is huntedEven to falling.
Shakespeare
2.
To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously;
as, the
. raging
sea or windsWhy do the heathen
rage
? Ps. ii. 1.
The madding wheels
Of brazen chariots
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 Cairo4.
To toy or act wantonly; to sport.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Syn. – To storm; fret; chafe; fume.
Rage
,Verb.
T.
To enrage.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rage
RAGE
,Noun.
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? Ps. 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. Nah. 2.
The madding wheels of brazen chariots rag'd.
6.
To toy wantonly; to sport. [Not in use.]Definition 2024
Rage
rage
rage
English
Noun
rage (plural rages)
- Violent uncontrolled anger.
- 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapter1:
- They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
- 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapter1:
- A current fashion or fad.
- Miniskirts were all the rage back then.
- (obsolete) Any vehement passion.
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
- in great rage of pain
- Thomas Macaulay (1800-1859)
- He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
- convulsed with a rage of grief
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
a violent anger
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a current fashion or fad
Verb
rage (third-person singular simple present rages, present participle raging, simple past and past participle raged)
- (intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.
- (intransitive) (sometimes figuratively) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
- John Milton (1608-1674)
- The madding wheels / Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise.
- 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
- The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. […] Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- "The two women murmured over the spirit-lamp, plotting the eternal conspiracy of hush and clean bottles while the wind raged and gave a sudden wrench at the cheap fastenings.
- 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
- Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
- 2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian:
- Debate has raged over whether Glass and smartglasses like it have any viable real-world use cases for consumers, or are more interesting to businesses where workers need hands-free access to information.
- John Milton (1608-1674)
- (obsolete) To enrage.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
Translations
act in an angry manner
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *rabia, from Latin rabies.
Pronunciation
Noun
rage f (plural rages)
Derived terms
- enrager
- rage de dents
- rage au volant
Anagrams
German
Verb
rage
- First-person singular present of ragen.
- First-person singular subjunctive I of ragen.
- Third-person singular subjunctive I of ragen.
- Imperative singular of ragen.
Norman
Etymology
From Old French rage, from Vulgar Latin *rabia, from Latin rabiēs (“anger, fury”).
Noun
rage f (plural rages)