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noun

Rage n.

1.

Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." "He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat." "Convulsed with a rage of grief."

2.

Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury. "torment, and loud lament, and furious rage."

3.

A violent or raging wind. (Obs.)

4.

The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.

Synonyms: Anger; vehemence; excitement; passion; fury. See Anger.

verb

Rage v. t. To enrage. (Obs.)

Rage v. i. (past & past part. raged; pres. part. raging)

1.

To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion. "Whereat he inly raged." "When one so great begins to rage, he is hunted Even to falling." "Rage, rage against the dying of the light Do not go gentle into that good night."

2.

To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds. "Why do the heathen rage?" "The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise."

3.

To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.

4.

To toy or act wantonly; to sport. (Obs.)

Synonyms: To storm; fret; chafe; fume.

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... 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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