rage
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See also: Rage
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Old French raige, rage (French: rage), from Medieval Latin rabia, from Latin rabies (“anger fury”).
Noun[edit]
rage (plural rages)
- Violent uncontrolled anger.
- 1879, Richard Jefferies, chapter 1, The Amateur Poacher:
- 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.
- 1879, Richard Jefferies, chapter 1, The Amateur Poacher:
- A current fashion or fad.
- Miniskirts were all the rage back then.
- (obsolete) Any vehement passion.
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
- in great rage of pain
- Thomas Macaulay (1800-1859)
- He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
- convulsed with a rage of grief
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
a violent anger
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Verb[edit]
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) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
- Milton
- The madding wheels / Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise.
- 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.
- Milton
- (obsolete) To enrage.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
Translations[edit]
act in an angry manner
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move with great violence
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Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French, from Vulgar Latin rabia, from Latin rabies.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
rage f (plural rages)
Derived terms[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
German[edit]
Verb[edit]
rage
- First-person singular present of ragen.
- First-person singular subjunctive I of ragen.
- Third-person singular subjunctive I of ragen.
- Imperative singular of ragen.
Jèrriais[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French raige, rage, from Medieval Latin rabia, from Latin rabies (“anger fury”).
Noun[edit]
rage f (plural rages)
Old French[edit]
Noun[edit]
rage f (oblique plural rages, nominative singular rage, nominative plural rages)
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin ragere. Compare French raire.
Verb[edit]
a rage (third-person singular present rage, past participle ras) 3rd conj.
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