Definitions for rage

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Spelling: [reyj]

IPA: /reɪdʒ/

Rage is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in rage (aegr).

Definitions for rage

noun

1. angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
2. a fit of violent anger:
3. fury or violence of wind, waves, fire, disease, etc.
4. violence of feeling, desire, or appetite:
5. a violent desire or passion.
6. ardor; fervor; enthusiasm:
7. the object of widespread enthusiasm, as for being popular or fashionable:
8. Archaic. insanity.

Idioms

1. all the rage, widely popular or in style.

verb (used without object)

1. to act or speak with fury; show or feel violent anger; fulminate.
2. to move, rush, dash, or surge furiously.
3. to proceed, continue, or prevail with great violence:
4. (of feelings, opinions, etc.) to hold sway with unabated violence.

Origin of rage

1250-1300; (noun) Middle English Old French Late Latin rabia, Latin rabiēs madness, rage, derivative of rabere to rage; (v.) ragen Old French ragier, derivative of rage (noun)

Examples for rage

Banstead's blatant folly had been enough to set any man in a rage.

What damned jolly fun it will be to send her out of the house in a rage!

The song is about rage and fury and passion, and I had a lot of pain that I wanted to release.

This was all the rage among Bible scholars in the nineteenth century.

Yes, these days, Nazism is all the rage in the land formerly known as Siam.

The thought set the geyser of his rage roaring and spouting in the face of heaven.

Now Jena Malone is 30, and with roles in Inherent Vice, The Hunger Games, and a massive superhero film, all the rage.

The rage that Marvin has embodied, a man on the edge of eruption, is always a badly wounded man.

To hear her thus named moved him to a rage almost beyond his control.

He flung out of the room on to the terrace and strode away in a rage.