rage

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

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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."

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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?)

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French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

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

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rage f (plural rages)

  1. rage (fury, anger)
  2. rabies

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Jèrriais [edit]

Etymology [edit]

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

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rage f (plural rages)

  1. rabies

Old French [edit]

Noun [edit]

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

  1. rage; ire; fury

Romanian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Vulgar Latin ragere. Compare French raire.

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a rage (third-person singular present rage, past participle ras3rd conj.

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

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