rage

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See also: Rage and ragé

English

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Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French rage (French: rage), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 229: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "VL." is not valid. See WT:LOL. *rabia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin rabies (“anger, fury”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹeɪdʒ/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Noun

rage (countable and uncountable, plural rages)

  1. Violent uncontrolled anger.
    • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
      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.
  2. A current fashion or fad.
    Miniskirts were all the rage back then.
  3. (obsolete) Any vehement passion.
    • (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      in great rage of pain
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    • He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
    • (Can we date this quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      convulsed with a rage of grief
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVII (1609 Quarto)
      And your true rights be termed a poet's rage

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Verb

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  1. (intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.
  2. (intransitive) (sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      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.
  3. (obsolete) To enrage.
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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French rage, from Old French rage, from Vulgar Latin *rabia.

Pronunciation

Noun

rage f or m (plural rages)

  1. craze, fad, fashion.

Synonyms

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

rage f (plural rages)

  1. rage (fury, anger)
    • 1813, Les Attraits de la Morale, Ou la Vertu Parée de Tous Ses Charmes, et l'Art de rendre Heureux ceux qui nous entourent, page 179.
      “ […] , disoit St. Chrysostôme, […] Un homme en colère se punit le premier, en s’élevant et combattant contre lui-même, et s’enflammant de rage.”
      " […] , Saint Chrysostom says, […] An angered man punishes himself in the first place, rising and fighting against himself, and catching fire from rage."
  2. rabies (disease)
    • 1935, Revista da produção animal, Instituto de Biologia Animal, page 47.
      Les chauves-souris Desmodus Rotundus infectéés naturellement transmettent la rage aux animaux.
      The naturally infected bats Desmodus rotundus transmit rabies to animals.

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German

Verb

rage

  1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of ragen.
  2. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of ragen.
  3. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of ragen.
  4. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of ragen.

Norman

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French rage, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 229: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "VL." is not valid. See WT:LOL. *rabia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin rabiēs (“anger, fury”).

Noun

rage f (plural rages)

  1. (Jersey) rabies

Old French

Alternative forms

Noun

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

  1. rage; ire; fury

Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin, Late Latin ragere. Compare French raire, réer; cf. also French railler, Italian ragliare.

Verb

a rage (third-person singular present rage, past participle not used) 3rd conj.

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

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