rage

See also Rage

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɹeɪdʒ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Etymology

Old French raige, rage (French: rage), from Medieval Latin rabia, from Latin rabies (“anger fury”).

Noun

rage (plural rages)

1. Violent uncontrolled anger.
   • "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.
2. A current fashion or fad.
   • ". . . all the rage."

Synonyms

• fury
• ire

Translations

a violent anger

• Arabic: حنق (ar) (ḥanaq) m
• Catalan: ràbia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 憤怒 (cmn) n, 愤怒 (cmn) (fènnù), 怒火 (cmn) (nùhuǒ), 怒氣 (cmn), 怒气 (cmn) (nùqì), 暴怒 (cmn) (bàonù)

• Danish: raseri (da) n, galskab (da) c
• Dutch: furie (nl) f, razernij (nl), toorn (nl)
• Finnish: raivo (1), vimma (1)
• French: rage (fr) f, furie (fr) f
• German: Wut (de) f, Zorn (de) m, Raserei (de) f, Rage (de) f
• Greek: οργή (el) (orgí) f
• Italian: rabbia (it) f, furia (it) f

• Japanese: 激怒 (ja) (げきど, gekido)
• Lithuanian: įniršis m, įsiūtis m, įtūžis m
• Luxembourgish: Roserei (lb) f
• Polish: wściekłość (pl) f
• Portuguese: raiva (pt) f, fúria (pt) f, ira (pt) f
• Romanian: mânie (ro), furie (ro)
• Russian: ярость (ru) (járostʹ) f, бешенство (ru) (béšenstvo) n, гнев (ru) (gnev) m, неистовство (ru) (neístovstvo) n
• Scottish Gaelic: corraich f
• Serbo-Croatian: ljutost, goropadnost, goropad, jarost, bes, besnost, bijes (sh) m
• Spanish: rabia (es) f
• Telugu: పిచ్చికోపం (picchikOpaM)

a current fashion or fad

• Finnish: villitys

• Russian: раж (ru) (raž) m

Verb

rage (third-person singular simple present rages, present participle raging, simple past and past participle raged)

1. (intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.
2. (intransitive) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
   • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," 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.

   • 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.

3. (obsolete) To enrage.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

Translations

act in an angry manner

• Azeri: qəzəb (az)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發怒 (cmn), 发怒 (cmn) (fānù)

• Danish: rase (da)
• Dutch: woeden (nl)
• Finnish: raivota (fi)
• French: rager (fr)
• German: wüten (de), rasen (de), toben (de)
• Greek: μαίνομαι (el) (ménome), λυσσομανώ (el) (lisomanó), φρενιάζω (el) (freniázo)

• Hungarian: tombol (hu)
• Japanese: 荒れ狂う (ja) (あれくるう, arekuruu), 暴れる (ja) (あばれる, abareru)
• Latin: saeviō (la)
• Portuguese: enfurecer-se
• Romanian: turba (ro)
• Russian: свирепствовать (ru) (svirépstvovatʹ), беситься (ru) (besítʹsja), бушевать (ru) (buševátʹ), неистовствовать (ru) (neístovstvovatʹ), буйствовать (ru) (bújstvovatʹ)
• Turkish: öfke (tr)

move with great violence

• Dutch: razen (nl)

• French: faire rage (fr), se déchaîner (fr)

Anagrams

• ager, areg, gear, GRAE

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French

Etymology

From Old French, from Vulgar Latin rabia, from Latin rabies.

Pronunciation

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Noun

rage f (plural rages)

1. rage (fury, anger)
2. rabies

Derived terms

• enragé
• enrager
• enrageant
• rage de dents
• rage au volant

Anagrams

• gare, garé
• géra

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Jèrriais

Etymology

From Old French raige, rage, from Medieval Latin rabia, from Latin rabies (“anger fury”).

Noun

rage f (plural rages)

1. rabies

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Old French

Noun

rage f (oblique plural rages, nominative singular rage, nominative plural rages)

1. rage; ire; fury

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Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin ragere. Compare French raire.

Verb

a rage (third-person singular present rage, past participle ras) 3rd conj.

1. (of animals) to roar, howl, bellow

Synonyms

• urla, mugi, țipa, zbiera

Derived terms

• răget