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Raging   /rˈeɪdʒɪŋ/   Listen
Raging

adjective
1.
Characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense.  Synonym: hot.  "A hot engagement" , "A raging battle" , "The river became a raging torrent"
2.
Very severe.  "A raging toothache"
3.
(of the elements) as if showing violent anger.  Synonyms: angry, furious, tempestuous, wild.  "Furious winds" , "The raging sea"


Rage

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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... in the early part of the century. This laid a foundation of respect for fortunes acquired by energy rather than inheritance. The United States, being the only neutral nation in the fierce conflicts raging round the world, had been reaping a rich harvest for several years. Sea captains and merchants had been thriving splendidly until the last year or two, when seizures began to be made by the British Government that roused a ferment ...
— A Little Girl in Old Boston • Amanda Millie Douglas
... time, in the country a fierce battle was raging against the Bolsheviki. It was not, on the part of their adversaries, a fight for power. If the Socialist-Revolutionists had wished they could have seized the power; to do that they had only to follow the example of those who were called "the Revolutionary ...
— Bolshevism - The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy • John Spargo
... cannot have been wholly uninfluenced—being a woman of an alert mind—by the controversy which, in the seventies and eighties, was raging about a pretty crass and literal materialism, and her writings probably reflect—with a good deal of indirection—that controversy. Here is a possible key to a good many things which are otherwise puzzling enough. She is, in her own ...
— Modern Religious Cults and Movements • Gaius Glenn Atkins
... burned all the fences on the plantation, so as to leave it an absolute waste. He carried off also about thirty slaves. Had this been to give them freedom, he would have done right; but it was to consign them to inevitable death from the small-pox and putrid fever, then raging in his camp. This I knew afterwards to be the fate of twenty-seven of them. I never had news of the remaining three, but presume they shared the same fate. When I say that Lord Cornwallis did all this, I do not mean ...
— History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George W. Williams
... Trott, jumping up in a frenzy. 'Look at this man, sir; consider the situation in which I have been placed for three hours past—the person you sent to guard me, sir, was a madman—a madman—a raging, ravaging, furious madman.' ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens


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