Definitions for rage
reɪdʒrage

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. fury, rage, madnessnoun

   a feeling of intense anger

   "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage"

2. ragenoun

   a state of extreme anger

   "she fell into a rage and refused to answer"

3. rage, passionnoun

   something that is desired intensely

   "his rage for fame destroyed him"

4. ragenoun

   violent state of the elements

   "the sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks"

5. fad, craze, furor, furore, cult, rageverb

   an interest followed with exaggerated zeal

   "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season"

6. ramp, rage, stormverb

   behave violently, as if in state of a great anger

7. rageverb

   be violent; as of fires and storms

8. rageverb

   feel intense anger

   "Rage against the dying of the light!"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ragenoun

   Violent uncontrolled anger.

2. ragenoun

   A current fashion or fad.

3. rageverb

   To act or speak in heightened anger.

4. rageverb

   To move with great violence, as a storm etc.

5. Etymology: raige, rage (French: rage), from rabia, from rabies.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Ragenoun

   Etymology: rage, Fr.

   1. Violent anger; vehement fury.

   This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find
   The harm of unskann’d swiftness, will, too late,
   Tie leaden pounds to’s heels. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   Desire not
   T’ allay my rages and revenges with
   Your colder reasons. William Shakespeare.

   Argument more heroick than the rage
   Of Turnus for Lavinia disespous’d. John Milton.

   2. Vehemence or exacerbation of any thing painful.

   The party hurtr who hath been in great rage of pain, till the weapon was re anointed. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   Torment and loud lament and furious rage. John Milton.

   The rage of thirst and hunger now supprest. Alexander Pope.

2. To Rageverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To be in fury; to be heated with excessive anger.

   Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging; and whosoever is deceived thereby, is not wise. Prov. xx. I.

   Why do the heathen rage. Psalm ii. I.

   At this he inly rag’d, and as they talk’d,
   Smote him into the midriff. John Milton.

   2. To ravage; to exercise fury.

   Heart-rending news,
   That death should license have to rage among
   The fair, the wise, the virtuous. Edmund Waller.

   3. To act with mischievous impetuousity.

   The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another, seem like torches, and run like the lightenings. Nah. ii. 4.

   The madding wheels of brazen chariots rag’d. John Milton.

   After these waters had raged on the earth, they began to lessen and shrink, and the great fluctuations of this deep being quieted by degrees, the waters retired. Burnet.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Ragenoun

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

2. Ragenoun

   especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury

3. Ragenoun

   a violent or raging wind

4. Ragenoun

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

5. Ragenoun

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

6. Ragenoun

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

7. Ragenoun

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

8. Ragenoun

   to toy or act wantonly; to sport

9. Rageverb

   to enrage

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1. Rage

   Rage is a German heavy metal band, formed in 1984. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid-1980s, along with bands such as Helloween, Running Wild, Blind Guardian and Grave Digger.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rage

   rāj, n. violent excitement: enthusiasm: rapture: furious anger: intensity: any object much sought after, the fashion.—v.i. to be furious with anger: to exercise fury: to prevail fatally, as a disease: to be violently agitated, as the waves.—v.t. to enrage.—adjs. Rage′ful, full of rage, furious; Rā′ging, acting with rage, violence, or fury.—adv. Rā′gingly.—All the rage (coll.), quite the fashion. [Fr.,—L. rabies—rabĕre, to rave.]

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rage

   Fury; violent, intense anger.

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1. RAGE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Rage is ranked #73464 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Rage surname appeared 264 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Rage.
   
   62.1% or 164 total occurrences were Black.
   32.5% or 86 total occurrences were White.
   1.8% or 5 total occurrences were Asian.
   1.8% or 5 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Act
   • Anger
   • Be
   • Desire
   • Violence

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'rage' in Nouns Frequency: #2560

Anagrams for rage »

1. ager

2. areg

3. gear

4. GRAE

5. agre

6. gare

How to pronounce rage?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rage in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of rage in a Sentence

1. Samuel S. Janus:

   Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world often a deeply felt rage.

2. Donald Trump:

   Well I'm looking to do background checks. I think background checks are important. I don't want to put guns into the hands of mentally unstable people or people with rage or hate.

3. Michelle Woodard:

   I just felt this rage.

4. Sandra Martinez:

   Just seeing that coward, that monster looking so snide and smirking makes my blood boil with rage.

5. John Highfill:

   I'm here to state my opposition to DEI, critical race theory or the derivatives thereof being instructed, indoctrinated or even hinted at in the school district, every piece of this propaganda that will reveal itself in the false doctrines of White fragility, White rage, White privilege and the like is just that. False.

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