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Webster 1913 Edition


Rage

Rage

(rāj)
,
Noun.
[F., fr. L.
rabies
, fr.
rabere
to rave; cf. Skr.
rabh
to seize,
rabhas
violence. Cf.
Rabid
,
Rabies
,
Rave
.]
1.
Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.
“In great rage of pain.”
Bacon.
He appeased the
rage
of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
Macaulay.
Convulsed with a
rage
of grief.
Hawthorne.
2.
Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.
torment, and loud lament, and furious
rage
.
Milton.
3.
A violent or raging wind.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
4.
The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion;
as, to be all the
rage
.
Syn. – Anger; vehemence; excitement; passion; fury. See
Anger
.

Rage

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Raged
(rājd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Raging
(rā′jĭng)
.]
[OF.
ragier
. See
Rage
,
Noun.
]
1.
To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
“Whereat he inly raged.”
Milton.
When one so great begins to
rage
, he is hunted
Even to falling.
Shakespeare
2.
To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously;
as, the
raging
sea or winds
.
Why do the heathen
rage
?
Ps. ii. 1.
The madding wheels
Of brazen chariots
raged
; dire was the noise.
Milton.
3.
To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect;
as, the plague
raged
in Cairo
.
4.
To toy or act wantonly; to sport.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Syn. – To storm; fret; chafe; fume.

Rage

,
Verb.
T.
To enrage.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


Rage

RAGE

,
Noun.
[Heb. to grind or gnash the teeth.]
1.
Violent anger accompanied with furious words, gestures or agitation; anger excited to fury. Passion sometimes rises to rage.
Torment and loud lament and furious rage.
2.
Vehemence or violent exacerbation of any thing painful; as the rage of pain; the rage of a fever; the rage of hunger or thirst.
3.
Fury; extreme violence; as the rage of a tempest.
4.
Enthusiasm; rapture.
Who brought green poesy to her perfect age, and made that art which was a rage.
5.
Extreme eagerness or passion directed to some object; as the rage for money.
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live.

RAGE

, v.i.
1.
To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
At this he inly rag'd.
2.
To be violent and tumultuous.
Why do the heathen rage? Ps. 2.
3.
To be violently driven or agitated; as the raging sea or winds.
4.
To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with fatal effect; as, the plague rages in Cairo.
5.
To be driven with impetuosity; to act or move furiously.
The chariots shall rage in the streets. Nah. 2.
The madding wheels of brazen chariots rag'd.
6.
To toy wantonly; to sport. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


Rage

Rage

See also: rage and ragé

German

Noun

Rage f (genitive Rage, no plural)

  1. fury, rage

Declension

rage

rage

See also: Rage and ragé

English

Noun

rage (plural rages)

  1. Violent uncontrolled anger.
    • 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapter1:
      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.

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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) (sometimes figuratively) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
    • John Milton (1608-1674)
      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, "," 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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈraː.ʒə/

Noun

rage f, m (plural rages)

  1. craze, fad, fashion.

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

rage f (plural rages)

  1. rage (fury, anger)
  2. rabies (disease)

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German

Verb

rage

  1. First-person singular present of ragen.
  2. First-person singular subjunctive I of ragen.
  3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of ragen.
  4. Imperative singular of ragen.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French rage, from Vulgar Latin *rabia, from Latin rabiēs (anger, fury).

Noun

rage f (plural rages)

  1. (Jersey) rabies

Old French

Alternative forms

Noun

rage 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 ras) 3rd conj.

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

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