rabid

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The dog was clearly rabid, and experience had shown bites of the severity of Joseph Meister's to be fatal.

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  1. adjective Of or affected by rabies.
  2. adjective Raging; uncontrollable: rabid thirst.
  3. adjective Extremely zealous or enthusiastic; fanatical: a rabid football fan.

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  • Even his powerful muscles were no match for the strength of the fibers. —  Conan the Indomitable
  • The dog was clearly rabid, and experience had shown bites of the severity of Joseph Meister's to be fatal. —  Pasteur's 'Private Science'
  • So this rabid, rabid, erratic desire to get the right picture makes for a dangerous situation. —  CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2008
  • "I don't know whether it would make Morgan and his kind more rabid or less so to have a non-Solarian entity possess authority in our affairs political - but at least it would be something new and different. —  First Lensman
  • "So long as it isn't rabid, that is." —  Dragonfly in Amber
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin rabidus, from rabere, to rave.

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  1. = Old French rabi, rabit = Spanish rábido = Portuguese Italian rabido, from Latin rabidus, mad, furious, from rabere, be mad, rage: see rabies, and cf. rage, n.
 

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