rage

[Rage]

Rage is a really intense anger. Some frustrated drivers let their emotions boil over into road rage when another car cuts them off, for example.

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Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.

Noun
an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season"

Noun
a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage"

Noun
violent state of the elements; "the sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks"

Noun
a state of extreme anger; "she fell into a rage and refused to answer"

Noun
something that is desired intensely; "his rage for fame destroyed him"

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Verb
feel intense anger; "Rage against the dying of the light!"

Verb
be violent; as of fires and storms

Verb
behave violently, as if in state of a great anger


n.
Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.

n.
Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.

n.
A violent or raging wind.

n.
The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.

n.
To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.

n.
To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds.

n.
To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.

n.
To toy or act wantonly; to sport.

v. t.
To enrage.


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.
Convulsed with a rage of grief.
2. Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.
torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.
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

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.
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 ?
The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise.
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.

Rage

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

Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.

To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.

To enrage.

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Usage Examples

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.

I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

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Other Usage Examples

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine.

People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs people do Civil War re-enactments people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don't like 'Twilight,' don't buy a ticket.

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