rage : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: rage	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for rage
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rage n a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" Synonym(s): fury, rage, madness a state of extreme anger; "she fell into a rage and refused to answer" something that is desired intensely; "his rage for fame destroyed him" Synonym(s): rage, passion violent state of the elements; "the sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks" an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season" Synonym(s): fad, craze, furor, furore, cult, rage v behave violently, as if in state of a great anger [syn: ramp, rage, storm] be violent; as of fires and storms feel intense anger; "Rage against the dying of the light!"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. [bd]In great rage of pain.[b8] --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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rage \Rage\, v. t. To enrage. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. [bd]Whereat he inly raged.[b8] --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.