rage
Meanings
Plural: rages
Noun
- a feeling of intense anger
- "his face turned red with rage"
- 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"
- violent state of the elements
- "the sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks"
- an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
- "it was all the rage that season"
- Violent uncontrolled anger.
- A current fashion or fad.
- An exciting and boisterous party.
- A subgenre of trap music originating in the United States in the 2020s, characterized by 808s and aggressive, distorted synths.
- Any vehement passion.
Verb
- behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
- be violent; as of fires and storms
- feel intense anger
- "Rage against the dying of the light!"
- To act or speak in heightened anger.
- To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
- To party hard; to have a good time.
- To enrage.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English rage, from Anglo-Norman rage, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs (“anger, fury”). Doublet of rabies.
Displaced native Middle English wode, from Old English wōd ("madness, fury, rage"; compare Modern dialectal English wood (“mad, insane, furious, raging”)); and Middle English hotherte (“anger”), from Old English hātheort (“fury, anger, wrath, rage”).
Synonyms
apoplexy, craze, cult, fad, foam at the mouth, frenzy, froth at the mouth, fume, furor, furore, fury, ire, let rip, lose it, madness, passion, rage, rager, ramp, rampage, rant, rave, see red, seethe, storm
Scrabble Score: 5
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