rage

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Violent, explosive anger. See Synonyms at anger.
2. n. A fit of anger.
3. n. Furious intensity, as of a storm or disease.
4. n. A burning desire; a passion.
5. n. A current, eagerly adopted fashion; a fad or craze: when torn jeans were all the rage.
6. v. To speak or act in violent anger: raged at the mindless bureaucracy.
7. v. To move with great violence or intensity: A storm raged through the mountains.
8. v. To spread or prevail forcefully: The plague raged for months.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Madness; insanity; an access of maniacal violence.
2. n. Violent anger manifested in language or action; indignation or resentment excited to fury and expressed in furious words and gestures, with agitation.
3. n. Extreme violence of operation or effect; intensity of degree, force, or urgency: used of things or conditions: as, the rage of a storm or of the sea; the rage of fever or of thirst.
4. n. Vehement emotion; generous ardor or enthusiasm; passionate utterance or eloquence.
5. n. Vehement desire or pursuit; ardent eagerness, as for the attainment or accomplishment of something; engrossing tendency or propensity: as, the rage for speculation, for social distinction, etc.
6. n. An object of general and eager desire or pursuit; fashion; vogue; fad: as, music is now all the rage.
7. n. A violent wind.
8. n. Synonyms Vexation, Indignation, etc. (see anger); frenzy, madness, raving.
9. To be furious with anger; be excited to fury; be violently agitated with passion of any kind.
10. To speak with passionate utterance, or act with furious vehemence; storm; rave.
11. To act violently; move impetuously; be violently driven or agitated; have furious course or effect: said of things: as, a raging fever; the storm rages; war is raging.
12. To frolic wantonly; play; frisk; romp.
13. To be very eager or anxious.
14. To enrage; chafe; fret.

Wiktionary

1. n. Violent uncontrolled anger.
2. n. A current fashion or fad.
3. v. intransitive To act or speak in heightened anger.
4. v. intransitive To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
5. v. obsolete To enrage.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.
2. n. Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.
3. n. obsolete A violent or raging wind.
4. n. The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion.
5. v. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
6. v. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously.
7. v. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect.
8. v. obsolete To toy or act wantonly; to sport.
9. v. obsolete To enrage.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. be violent; as of fires and storms
2. v. feel intense anger
3. n. a state of extreme anger
4. n. a feeling of intense anger
5. v. behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
6. n. an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
7. n. something that is desired intensely
8. n. violent state of the elements