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rage
[ reyj ]
noun
- angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
a speech full of rage;
incidents of road rage.
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Antonyms:
- a fit of violent anger:
Her rages usually don't last too long.
- fury or violence of wind, waves, fire, disease, etc.
Synonyms:
- violence of feeling, desire, or appetite:
the rage of thirst.
- a violent desire or passion.
- ardor; fervor; enthusiasm:
poetic rage.
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- the object of widespread enthusiasm, as for being popular or fashionable:
Raccoon coats were the rage on campus.
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- Archaic. insanity.
verb (used without object)
- to act or speak with fury; show or feel violent anger; fulminate.
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- to move, rush, dash, or surge furiously.
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- to proceed, continue, or prevail with great violence:
The battle raged ten days.
- (of feelings, opinions, etc.) to hold sway with unabated violence.
rage
/ °ù±ðɪ»åÏô /
noun
- intense anger; fury
- violent movement or action, esp of the sea, wind, etc
- great intensity of hunger, sexual desire, or other feelings
- aggressive behaviour associated with a specified environment or activity
road rage
school rage
- a fashion or craze (esp in the phrase all the rage )
- informal.a dance or party
verb
- to feel or exhibit intense anger
- (esp of storms, fires, etc) to move or surge with great violence
- (esp of a disease or epidemic) to spread rapidly and uncontrollably
- informal.to have a good time
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- °ù²¹²µ±ðf³Ü±ô adjective
- °ù²¹²µî€ƒi²Ô²µÂ·±ô²â adverb
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of rage1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of rage1
Idioms and Phrases
- all the rage, widely popular or in style.
More idioms and phrases containing rage
see all the rage .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
In the early days of this year’s season, torpedo bats have become all the rage for big-league hitters.
The chocolate-covered marshmallow treats had apparently been all the rage prior to this - being eaten by crewmen as they flew nuclear bombers on long training sorties at the height of the Cold War.
It’s fun to read, for sure, but there’s also a yawning pit of despair sitting beneath the narrator’s alternating tones of glib humor and seething rage.
He was seething with rage, but he was also incredibly patient and compassionate because of the tragic mistakes.
A roller coaster of emotions followed, she recalled, from “grief to rage†— the rage being the magnitude of a fire that destroyed more than 5,400 homes and killed 12 people.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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