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rage

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1. rage - Noun

2. rage - Verb

Meaning

Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.

Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.

A violent or raging wind.

The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.

To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.

To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds.

To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.

To toy or act wantonly; to sport.

To enrage.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage. Plutarch

Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage. André Maurois

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. William Congreve

Fear is a fine spur; so is rage. American Proverb

Fear is a fine spur; so is rage. Irish Proverb

If a caged bird isn't singing for love, it's singing in a rage. Corsican Proverb

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