Rage — Defs

01 n. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.

1.
Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.
“He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.” — Macaulay.

“Convulsed with a rage of grief.” — Hawthorne.
2.
Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.
“torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.” — Milton.
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.

Syn. Anger; vehemence; excitement; passion; fury. See Anger.

02 v. i. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.

imp. & p. p. Raged; p. pr. & vb. n. Raging

1.
To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
“When one so great begins to rage, he is hunted Even to falling.” — Shak.

“Rage, rage against the dying of the light Do not go gentle into that good night.” — Dylan Thomas.
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?” — Ps. ii. 1.

“The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise.” — Milton.
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.]

Syn. To storm; fret; chafe; fume.

03 v. t. To enrage.