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—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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