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rage noun [ reɪdʒ ]

• violent uncontrollable anger.
• "her face was distorted with rage"
Similar: temper, fit of rage/fury/anger/temper, fit of bad/ill temper, towering rage, bad temper, pet, fit of pique, tantrum, fury, frenzy of rage/anger, rampage, paroxysm of rage/anger, passion, bad mood, mood, mard, grump, strop, state, blowout, hissy fit, bate, wax, skid, paddywhack,
• a vehement desire or passion.
• "a rage for absolute honesty informs much western art"
Similar: craze, passion, fashion, taste, desire, craving, appetite, trend, vogue, fad, enthusiasm, love, obsession, compulsion, weakness, fondness, fixation, fetish, mania, fascination, preoccupation, thing, yen, cacoethes,
• a lively party.
• "the sound of the rage filled the campus"

rage verb

• feel or express violent uncontrollable anger.
• "he raged at the futility of it all"
Similar: be angry, be furious, be enraged, be incensed, be infuriated, seethe, be beside oneself, have a fit, boil, be boiling over, rant, rave, rant and rave, storm, fume, spit, breathe fire, burn, be livid, be wild, jump up and down, froth/foam at the mouth, be steamed up, do one's head/nut in, spit feathers, protest strongly at, complain vociferously about, disagree violently with, oppose strongly, denounce, fulminate, inveigh, rail, kick, expostulate, make a fuss about, kick up a fuss/stink about,
• enjoy oneself at a party or other lively gathering, typically with drinking and music.
• "we're gonna rage through the weekend"
Origin: Middle English (also in the sense ‘madness’): from Old French rage (noun), rager (verb), from a variant of Latin rabies (see rabies).


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