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rage

//ɹeɪd͡ʒ//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for rage

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Forms

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
rages

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)
rage
past (v2)
raged
past participle (v3)
raged
present participle
raging
3rd person singular
rages

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.Violent uncontrolled anger.

  2. 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. 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. 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.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 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. 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. 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.

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