Rage

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Violent, explosive anger. See Synonyms at anger.
  • n. A fit of anger.
  • n. Furious intensity, as of a storm or disease.
  • n. A burning desire; a passion.
  • n. A current, eagerly adopted fashion; a fad or craze: when torn jeans were all the rage.
  • verb-intransitive. To speak or act in violent anger: raged at the mindless bureaucracy.
  • verb-intransitive. To move with great violence or intensity: A storm raged through the mountains.
  • verb-intransitive. To spread or prevail forcefully: The plague raged for months.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Violent uncontrolled anger.
  • n. A current fashion or fad.
  • v. To act or speak in heightened anger.
  • v. To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
  • v. To enrage.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
  • verb-intransitive. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously.
  • verb-intransitive. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect.
  • verb-intransitive. To toy or act wantonly; to sport.
  • v. To enrage.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Madness; insanity; an access of maniacal violence.
  • n. Violent anger manifested in language or action; indignation or resentment excited to fury and expressed in furious words and gestures, with agitation.
  • n. Extreme violence of operation or effect; intensity of degree, force, or urgency: used of things or conditions: as, the rage of a storm or of the sea; the rage of fever or of thirst.
  • n. Vehement emotion; generous ardor or enthusiasm; passionate utterance or eloquence.
  • n. Vehement desire or pursuit; ardent eagerness, as for the attainment or accomplishment of something; engrossing tendency or propensity: as, the rage for speculation, for social distinction, etc.
  • n. An object of general and eager desire or pursuit; fashion; vogue; fad: as, music is now all the rage.
  • n. A violent wind.
  • n. Synonyms Vexation, Indignation, etc. (see anger); frenzy, madness, raving.
  • To be furious with anger; be excited to fury; be violently agitated with passion of any kind.
  • To speak with passionate utterance, or act with furious vehemence; storm; rave.
  • To act violently; move impetuously; be violently driven or agitated; have furious course or effect: said of things: as, a raging fever; the storm rages; war is raging.
  • To frolic wantonly; play; frisk; romp.
  • To be very eager or anxious.
  • To enrage; chafe; fret.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. be violent; as of fires and storms
  • v. feel intense anger
  • n. a state of extreme anger
  • n. a feeling of intense anger
  • v. behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
  • n. an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
  • n. something that is desired intensely
  • n. violent state of the elements
  • Verb Form
    raged    rages    raging   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    be    anger    angriness    do    act    behave    fashion    desire    violence   
    Cross Reference
    storm    desire    pain    burn   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    excitement    fury    anger    vehemence    passion    fret    chafe    storm    fume    ravage   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Age    Cage    Gage    Osage    Page    Paige    age    assuage    backstage    cage   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    anger    terror    grief    passion    frustration    impatience    laughter    panic    lust    violence