rage

See also: Rage and ragé

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

rage (countable and uncountable, plural rages)

Violent uncontrolled anger.
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175, page 030:
  
  They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
A current fashion or fad.
Miniskirts were all the rage back then.
(obsolete) Any vehement passion.
- (Can we date this quote?) Francis Bacon
  in great rage of pain
- (Can we date this quote?) Thomas Macaulay
  He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
- (Can we date this quote?) Nathaniel Hawthorne
  convulsed with a rage of grief
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVII (1609 Quarto)
  And your true rights be termed a poet's rage

Derived terms

a violent anger

Albanian: tërbim (sq) m
Arabic: حَنَق‎‎ m (ḥanaq)
Armenian: կատաղություն (hy) (katałutʿyun)
Catalan: ràbia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 憤怒 (zh) n, 愤怒 (zh) (fènnù), 怒火 (zh) (nùhuǒ), 怒氣 (zh), 怒气 (zh) (nùqì), 暴怒 (zh) (bàonù)
Czech: zuřivost f, běs m, běsnění n
Danish: raseri n, galskab c
Dutch: furie (nl) f, razernij (nl), toorn (nl), woede (nl) f
Finnish: raivo (fi) (1), vimma (fi) (1)
French: rage (fr) f, furie (fr) f
Galician: raiba f, furia f, ira
Georgian: მძვინვარება (mʒvinvareba), გააფთრება (gaaptreba), გაშმაგება (gašmageba), რისხვა (risxva)
German: Wut (de) f, Zorn (de) m, Raserei (de) f, Rage (de) f
Greek: οργή (el) f (orgí)
Italian: rabbia (it) f, furia (it) f
Japanese: 激怒 (ja) (げきど, gekido)

a current fashion or fad

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

(intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.
(intransitive) (sometimes figuratively) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
  The madding wheels / Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise.
- 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
  The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. […] Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian:
  Debate has raged over whether Glass and smartglasses like it have any viable real-world use cases for consumers, or are more interesting to businesses where workers need hands-free access to information.
(obsolete) To enrage.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)