rage

See also Rage

English

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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 (ħanaq) Catalan: ràbia f. Croatian: bijes (hr) m. Danish: raseri (da) n., galskab (da) c. Dutch: furie (nl) f. Finnish: raivo (1), vimma (1), villitys (2) French: rage (fr) f., furie (fr) f. German: Wut, Zorn, Raserei, Rage Greek: οργή (el) (orgí) f. Italian: rabbia (it) f., furia (it) f. Japanese: 激怒 (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 f., (járost') f., бешенство (b'éšenstvo) n. Scottish Gaelic: corraich f. Serbian: ljutost, goropadnost, goropad, jarost, bes, besnost Spanish: rabia (es) f. Telugu: పిచ్చికోపం (picchikOpaM)

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.
   • 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.

Translations

act in an angry manner

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) Portuguese: enfurecer-se Romanian: turba (ro)

Anagrams

• ager, areg, gear, GRAE

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Anglo-Norman

Noun

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

1. rage; ire; fury

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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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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