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Definition of Rage

Rage

  1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.
  2. Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.
  3. A violent or raging wind.
  4. The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.
  5. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
  6. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds.
  7. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.
  8. To toy or act wantonly; to sport.
  9. To enrage.

Rage Quotations

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Louis L'Amour

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Will Rogers
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Rage Translations

rage in French is emportement
rage in German is Rase, Wut
rage in Italian is furia
rage in Latin is furor
rage in Spanish is furia, rabia

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