rage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: rages
form: raging
form: raged
form: raged
Etymology: From Middle English ragen, from Old French rager, ragier, from the noun (see above).
Displaced native Middle English weden (“to rage with anger”), from Old English wēdan (“to rage”), and Old English iersian, among other synonyms.
Senses: examples: text: When a Muslim politician held a 50th birthday party, he [Zaharan Hashim] raged about how Western infidel traditions were poisoning his hometown, Kattankudy.
ref: 2019 April 25, Hannah Beech, “Sri Lankan Accused of Leading Attacks Preached Slaughter. Many Dismissed Him.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2023:
glosses: To act or speak in heightened anger.
examples: text: Horrible diſcord, and the madding Wheeles / Of brazen Chariots rag'd; dire was the noiſe / Of conflict; over head the diſmal hiſs / Of fiery Darts in flaming volies flew, / And flying vaulted either Hoſt with fire.
ref: 1674, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 152:
text: The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
ref: 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
text: The two women murmured over the spirit-lamp, plotting the eternal conspiracy of hush and clean bottles while the wind raged and gave a sudden wrench at the cheap fastenings.
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, page 11:
text: Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
ref: 2012 November 1, David M. Halbfinger, “New Jersey Continues to Cope With Hurricane Sandy”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2023:
text: Debate has raged over whether Glass and smartglasses like it have any viable real-world use cases for consumers, or are more interesting to businesses where workers need hands-free access to information.
ref: 2014 June 24, Samuel Gibbs, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2022:
text: As the storm raged, more than 85 million people—or more than one in every four Americans—were covered by some kind of blizzard or winter-storm advisory on Friday, according to weather.com.
ref: 2016 January 25, Marina Koren, “The East Coast Digs Out”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2021:
synonyms: rave
glosses: To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
examples: text: These events are all about raging hard, getting as fucked up as you can. Not necessarily even about dancing, just being a face in this giant extravaganza.
ref: 2012 August 2, Simon Reynolds, quoting Nathan Messer, “How rave music conquered America”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2023:
glosses: To party hard; to have a good time.
examples: text: The King is come, deale mildly with his youth, / For young hot Colts, being rag'd, do rage the more.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 2, scene 1], page 28, column 2:
glosses: To enrage.
Synonyms: word: fume
word: foam at the mouth
word: frenzy
word: froth at the mouth
word: let rip
word: lose it
word: rampage
word: rant
word: rage
word: rave
word: see red
word: seethe
word: storm
Hypernyms: word: emote
word: vent
Meronyms: word: attack
word: bridle
word: lose one's temper
word: throw a tantrum
word: throw one's toys out of the pram
Derived terms: raging agreement
raging mad
road-raging
Related terms: word: assault
word: make a scene
word: anger
word: angry
word: tantrum