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Rage   /reɪdʒ/   Listen
Rage

noun
1.
A feeling of intense anger.  Synonyms: fury, madness.  "His face turned red with rage"
2.
A state of extreme anger.
3.
Something that is desired intensely.  Synonym: passion.
4.
Violent state of the elements.
5.
An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.  Synonyms: craze, cult, fad, furor, furore.  "It was all the rage that season"
verb
(past & past part. raged; pres. part. raging)
1.
Behave violently, as if in state of a great anger.  Synonyms: ramp, storm.
2.
Be violent; as of fires and storms.
3.
Feel intense anger.



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"Rage" Quotes from Famous Books



... resistance, to a profound fall." And later he writes: "But the lower sensuality persisted, however much and however often I resisted it. My imagination continually produced the horrible pictures. And though in desperate rage I clenched my teeth to drive them away, they always left traces in my soul, and from time to time I fell. How I have struggled, how I have fought! How often with tears have I sought God's protection and help, praising God with holy zeal ...
— The Sexual Life of the Child • Albert Moll
... morning wore away, without a sign of living thing, not even a passing gull; and the black melancholy of the heaven reflected itself in the black melancholy of Amyas. Was he to lose his prey after all? The thought made him shudder with rage and disappointment. It was ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley
... come before you to express indignation, nor yet in a spirit of lamentation. Why rage against Fate, that is all-powerful? But perchance it is needful to bewail the lot of those who are undeservedly unfortunate, a lot which is now mine. Is it not afflicting for us to meet war after war? Is it not absurd to be involved in civil conflict? Are not both these conditions surpassed ...
— Dio's Rome, Volume V., Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) • Cassius Dio
... yards to cover, but such a fifty yards! His legs seemed of lead, too, while his head was swimming. No sooner had he commenced to stagger back, than the Germans opened fire on him; a hundred bullets whistled by him, while he heard yells of rage coming from the ...
— Tommy • Joseph Hocking
... of his own unbridled sensuality shook with inarticulate rage. Choking and coughing he writhed in his chair—his emaciated limbs twisted grotesquely; his sallow face bathed in perspiration his claw-like hands opening and closing; his bloodless lips curled back from his yellow ...
— The Eyes of the World • Harold Bell Wright


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