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Rage   /reɪdʒ/   Listen
noun
Rage  n.  
1.
Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." "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.)
4.
The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.
Synonyms: Anger; vehemence; excitement; passion; fury. See Anger.


verb
Rage  v. t.  To enrage. (Obs.)


Rage  v. i.  (past & past part. raged; pres. part. raging)  
1.
To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion. "Whereat he inly raged." "When one so great begins to rage, he is hunted Even to falling." "Rage, rage against the dying of the light Do not go gentle into that good night."
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.)
Synonyms: To storm; fret; chafe; fume.





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"Rage" Quotes from Famous Books



... unfortunate enough to be under the necessity of being angry. You can't always help it. Some people are never put out. However much you rile them, they are always good-humoured, always cool, always friendly. You might as well try to talk the sun behind a cloud as to get them in a rage. Happy the few who have this art! They always get the best of it, they always win the greatest respect, they always are the least likely people for any one to ...
— Parkhurst Boys - And Other Stories of School Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... be in a towering rage because such a blunder had been made, and called upon the fleetest ...
— The Land of Mystery • Edward S. Ellis
... pent-up passions of men are here let loose without restraint. Roused to a pitch of fury from long-continued resistance, and eager to take vengeance on the murderers of women and children, the men in their pitiless rage showed no mercy. The dark days of Badajoz and San Sebastian were renewed on a small scale at Delhi; and during the assault, seeing the impetuous fury of our men, I could not help recalling to my mind the harrowing details of ...
— A Narrative Of The Siege Of Delhi - With An Account Of The Mutiny At Ferozepore In 1857 • Charles John Griffiths
... was sixteen years of age, Tall, handsome, slender, but well knit: he seem'd Active, though not so sprightly, as a page; And everybody but his mother deem'd Him almost man; but she flew in a rage And bit her lips (for else she might have scream'd) If any said so, for to be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the ...
— Don Juan • Lord Byron
... whose high deeds Thro' life, till death, enlarge their span: Only Achilles in his rage And sloth ...
— Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems • Christina Rossetti


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