Definition of Rage

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Definition of Rage

Rage

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

Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.

A violent or raging wind.

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

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

To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds.

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

To toy or act wantonly; to sport.

To enrage.

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Rage Quotations

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

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

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
James A. Baldwin

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut

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

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas

Boredom is rage spread thin.
Paul Tillich

And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Alexander Pope

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
William J. Clinton

Depression is rage spread thin.
George Santayana

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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