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Definition of Rage

Rage
Rage Rage, n. [F., fr. L. rabies, fr. rabere to rave; cf. Skr. rabh to seize, rabhas violence. Cf. Rabid, Rabies, Rave.] 1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. ``In great rage of pain.' --Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. --Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief. --Hawthorne. 2. Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury. torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. --Milton. 3. A violent or raging wind. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 4. The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage. Syn: Anger; vehemence; excitement; passion; fury. See Anger.
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Rage Rage, v. t. To enrage. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Rage Rage, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Raged; p. pr. & vb. n. Raging.] [OF. ragier. See Rage, n.] 1. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion. ``Whereat he inly raged.' --Milton. When one so great begins to rage, he a hunted Even to falling. --Shak. 2. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds. Why do the heathen rage ? --Ps. ii. 1. The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise. --Milton. 3. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo. 4. To toy or act wantonly; to sport. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Syn: To storm; fret; chafe; fume.

Meaning of Rage from wikipedia

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