rage

rage
—rageful, adj. —ragingly, adv.
/rayj/, n., v., raged, raging.
n.
1. angry fury; violent anger.
2. a fit of violent anger.
3. fury or violence of wind, waves, fire, disease, etc.
4. violence of feeling, desire, or appetite: the rage of thirst.
5. a violent desire or passion.
6. ardor; fervor; enthusiasm: poetic rage.
7. the object of widespread enthusiasm, as for being popular or fashionable: Raccoon coats were the rage on campus.
8. Archaic. insanity.
9. all the rage, widely popular or in style.
v.i.
10. to act or speak with fury; show or feel violent anger; fulminate.
11. to move, rush, dash, or surge furiously.
12. to proceed, continue, or prevail with great violence: The battle raged ten days.
13. (of feelings, opinions, etc.) to hold sway with unabated violence.
[1250-1300; (n.) ME < OF < LL rabia, L rabies madness, rage, deriv. of rabere to rage; (v.) ragen < OF ragier, deriv. of rage (n.)]
Syn. 1. wrath, frenzy, passion, ire, madness. See anger. 3. turbulence. 6. eagerness, vehemence. 7. vogue, fad, fashion, craze. 10, 11. rave, fume, storm.
Ant. 1. calm.

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