rage
//ɹeɪd͡ʒ//
Forms
- Plural
- rages
- present (v1)
- rage
- past (v2)
- raged
- past participle (v3)
- raged
- present participle
- raging
- 3rd person singular
- rages
Definitions
1.Violent uncontrolled anger.
2.A current fashion or fad.
- Miniskirts were all the rage back then.
- But the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action.
- This rage for boulevardizing has destroyed the quaint, queer, pestilential streets of old Paris, through which it was our pleasure to wander many years since.
3.An exciting and boisterous party.(slang)
- That evening, Felix and Trish Homer invited me to the Sundancer for "a bit of a rage."
4.A subgenre of trap music originating in the United States in the 2020s, characterized by 808s and aggressive, distorted synths.
- The list of rappers affiliated with rage has exploded in the subsequent 18 months, and several seem poised to break out in 2023.
- Tripp At Knight feels like a Carti homage, but while it certainly gestures towards the rage sound, Trippie’s imitation of Carti is largely rooted in 2019 rather than 2021.
1.To act or speak in heightened anger.
- When a Muslim politician held a 50th birthday party, he [Zaharan Hashim] raged about how Western infidel traditions were poisoning his hometown, Kattankudy.
2.To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
- Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
- The two women murmured over the spirit-lamp, plotting the eternal conspiracy of hush and clean bottles while the wind raged and gave a sudden wrench at the cheap fastenings.
- As the storm raged, more than 85 million people, or more than one in every four Americans, were covered by some kind of blizzard or winter-storm advisory on Friday, according to weather.com.
3.To party hard; to have a good time.(slang)
- These events are all about raging hard, getting as fucked up as you can. Not necessarily even about dancing, just being a face in this giant extravaganza.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4338
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Etymology tree
Latin rabiō
Proto-Italic *-jēs
Latin -iēs
Classical Latin rabiēs
Late Latin rabia
Anglo-Norman ragebor.
Middle English rage
English rage
From Middle English rage, from Anglo-Norman rage, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs (“anger, fury”). Doublet of rabies.