rage

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  1. noun Violent, explosive anger. See Synonyms at anger.
  2. noun A fit of anger.
  3. noun Furious intensity, as of a storm or disease.
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  • When I got to the part about Cam Connors, his rage was apparent in the single syllable he uttered. —  Marcia Muller - [16] A Wild and Lonely Place
  • The jealousy of Leontes in “The Winter's Tale” is precisely the same; Hermione gives her hand to Polixenes, and at once Leontes suspects and hates, and his rage is all of “paddling palms [1] and pinching fingers.” The jealousy of Posthumus, too, is of the same kind Never talk on 't She hath been colted by him Footnote 1: Iago's expression, too; cf. “Othello,” II. —  The Man Shakespeare
  • The joy and the rage were almost more than he could bear. —  Garwood, Julie - Buchanan 1 - Heartbreaker
  • For when I change my mind, or my rage is abated, it will be more from cool and friendly advice from him than from anybody, and to make me, as I have told him, quite reconciled to measures. —  George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
  • The target of his rage was an orange cat with white markings. —  This Blog Is Full Of Crap
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anger ·  terror ·  grief ·  passion ·  frustration ·  impatience ·  laughter ·  panic ·  lust ·  violence

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rage:   raged ·  raging ·  rages
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin rabia, from Latin rabiēs, from rabere, to be mad.

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  1. from Middle English rage, from Old French rage, raige, French rage, French dial. raige = Provencal rabia, ratje = Spanish rabia = Portuguese raiva, rabia = Italian rabbia, dial. raggia, madness, rage, fury, from Middle Latin (and prob. Late Latin) rabia, a later form of Latin rabies, madness, rage, fury, from rabere, be mad, rave, = Sanskrit √ rabh, seize. Cf. rage, v., enrage, rave, rabies, rabid, etc.
  2. from Middle English ragen, from Old French ragier, rager, be furious, rage, romp, play, French rager, Picard dial. rabier, be furious, rage, = Provencal raviar, ratjar = Spanish rabiar = Portuguese raivar = Old Italian rabbiare, be furious, from Middle Latin rabiare, be furious, rage, from rabia, Latin rabies, madness, fury, rage: see rage, n. Cf. enrage, rave, rabiate.
 

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