[syn: ramp, rage, storm]
2. be violent; as of fires and storms;
3. feel intense anger;
- Example: "Rage against the dying of the light!"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Rage \Rage\ (r[=a]j), 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.
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He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of
broken meat. --Macaulay.
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Convulsed with a rage of grief. --Hawthorne.
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2. Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering
wrath; violent anger; fury.
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torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.
--Milton.
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3. A violent or raging wind. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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4. The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after,
or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as,
to be all the rage.
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Syn: Anger; vehemence; excitement; passion; fury. See
Anger.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Rage \Rage\, v. t.
To enrage. [Obs.] --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Rage \Rage\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Raged (r[=a]jd); p. pr. & vb.
n. Raging (r[=a]"j[i^]ng).] [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.
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When one so great begins to rage, he is hunted
Even to falling. --Shak.
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Do not go gentle into that good night. --Dylan
Thomas.
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2. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or
agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or
winds.
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Why do the heathen rage? --Ps. ii. 1.
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The madding wheels
Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise.
--Milton.
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3. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with
destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in
Cairo.
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4. To toy or act wantonly; to sport. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Syn: To storm; fret; chafe; fume.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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!"
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