rage

Speech parts

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

Synonyms

fury passion storm anger madness ire furor mania fume cult resentment temper ramp outrage wrath
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Antonyms

pax chill out glee congeniality still love
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Hypernyms

act violence desire fashion anger behave

Hyponyms

wrath lividity blow up combust blow a fuse hit the roof

Phrases with the word

all the rage go into a rage be in rage bottled up rage in a towering rage fit of rage

Derivatives

raged raging

Anagrams

agre gare gear ager Gera GRAE Rega Gaer

Examples

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

Close letter words and terms

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