rage
1. (a period of) extreme or violent anger: 2. an exciting or entertaining…
Meaning of
rage
in English
rage
noun
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rage
noun
(
ANGER
)
B2
Her
sudden
rages were
terrifying
.
I was
frightened
because I had never
seen
him
in
such
a
rage before.
He
flew
into
a
fit
of
rage over the
smallest
mistake
.
He vented his anger by kicking the door.
If you eat on the patio, you have to put up with annoyance of other customers’ cigarette smoke blowing over to your table.
She expressed irritation with her son’s attitude.
A lot of children’s behavior problems are caused by sheer frustration.
The speech provoked fury in some parts of the world.
He was filled with jealous rage when he saw his girlfriend talking to another man.
His
face
contorted
with
bitterness
and rage.
She
ran
from the
house
in a
terrible
rage, her
arms
flailing
in the
air
.
He was
incandescent
with rage.
He gave a
bellow
of rage.
My little
daughter
started
jumping
up and down with rage when she
heard
she couldn’t go.
rage
noun
(
EVENT
)
Australian English
informal
The
party
was a rage.
Celebrations, parties & special occasions
Idiom
rage
verb
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C2
He raged
at
(=
spoke
angrily
to)
us for
forgetting
to
order
a
replacement
.
C2
A
flu
epidemic
is raging in/through
local
schools
.
The
argument
rages
on
(=
continues
strongly
)
.
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
-rage
suffix
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road-rage
trolley-rage
air-rage
(Definition of
rage
Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus
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rage
| Intermediate English
rage
noun
us
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I had never
seen
him in such a rage before.
rage
verb
us
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He raged at me for
sending
the
letter
out before he had
seen
it.
The
fire
broke
out and raged for four
days
,
destroying
most of the
old
city
.
(Definition of
rage
Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
rage
| Business English
rage
noun
uk
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us
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be all the rage
In
China
, Mercedes-Benz
cars
are all the rage among the
moneyed
elite
.
See also
(Definition of
rage
Cambridge Business English Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
Examples
of
rage
At the same time, we must be vigilant against aiming
rage
at the blameless.
Then fear overcame him when his awareness drifted to a place where a great, wild fire was raging.
TIME
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All around us we see
rage
and sorrow starting to erupt.
CNN
A huge after-party raged from the moment the finale was over, carrying on late into the night.
New York Times
A battle rages on warm evenings around the world.
Gizmodo
Its civil war has raged for generations and monthly incomes there wouldn’t be enough buy a cheap used violin.
CBS News
Inevitably, the more people raged against the book the more it sold.
When economic theory was developed in the 1700s, the big
rage
was still in physics.
Huffington Post
Mobile personal assistant apps are all the
rage
these days.
TechCrunch
I didn’t expect to sit down to write this feeling quite so much
rage
.
Slate Magazine
The first
rage
faces appeared in comics on 4chan around the middle of 2007.
Ars Technica
In every war zone, there is another battle, a shadow conflict that rages quietly behind the scenes.
NPR
The pain and the
rage
do not go away when the wrongfully convicted inmate finally walks out of the prison gate.
Huffington Post
Perhaps that’s a clue for how to proceed as the inner and outer storms
rage
.
Huffington Post
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