rage

From Middle English, borrowed through Anglo-Norman rage, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs (“anger, fury”). Doublet of rabies. Displaced native Old English hātheortnes (“rage”) and Old English wēdan (“to rage”).

• IPA^(key): /ɹeɪd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd͡ʒ

rage (countable and uncountable, plural rages)

1. Violent uncontrolled anger.
   • 1697, [William] Congreve, The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228728136, Act III, page 39:

     Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175:

     They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.

2. A current fashion or fad.

   Miniskirts were all the rage back then.

   • 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”, in Essays: First Series:

     But the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action.

   • 1864, Samuel Greatheed, ‎Daniel Parken, ‎Theophilus Williams, The Eclectic Review (volume 7? volume 120? page 130)

     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. (obsolete) Any vehement passion.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:

     in great rage of pain

   • 1856 December​, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson [from the Encyclopædia Britannica]”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, OCLC 30956848:

     He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 6, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, OCLC 223202227:

     convulsed with a rage of grief

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet XVII”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:

     And your true rights be termed a poet's rage

• fury
• ire

rage (third-person singular simple present rages, present participle raging, simple past and past participle raged)

1. (intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.
2. (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     The madding wheels / Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise.

   • 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:

     The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. […] Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.

   • 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, OCLC 19736994; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, OCLC 258624721:

     "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.

   • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

     Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.

   • 2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian:

     Debate has raged over whether Glass and smartglasses like it have any viable real-world use cases for consumers, or are more interesting to businesses where workers need hands-free access to information.

3. (obsolete) To enrage.
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act 2, scene 1]:

     The king is come : deal mildly with his youth
     For young hot colts , being raged, do rage the more

• Ager, GRAE, Gear, Gera, Rega, ager, areg, gare, gear

• IPA^(key): /raːɣə/, [ˈʁɑːʊ]

From Old Norse raka, from Proto-Germanic *rakōną, cognate with Swedish raka, English rake. Related to *rekaną (“to pile”) and *rakjaną (“to stretch”).

rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)

1. to scrape
2. (dated) to shave

   Synonym: barbere

• “rage,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Low German rāken (“to hit, reach”), from Proto-West Germanic *rakōn. Probably related to the previous verb.

rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)

1. (transitive, usually negated) to concern, to be of (someone's) business
2. (transitive) to not concern, to not be any of (someone's) business
   • 1967, Christian Kampmann, Sammen, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:

     Men det rager mig, hvad folk siger .

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   • 2007, Jonas T. Bengtsson, Submarino, Art People, →ISBN:

     “Det rager mig, hvad hun har lyst til.”

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• “rage,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

From German ragen (“to jut, stick out”), from Proto-Germanic *hragōną, cognate with Old English oferhragan.

rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)

1. to jut, stick out, stand out

• “rage,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from Middle French rage, from Old French rage, from Late Latin rabia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈraː.ʒə/

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• Hyphenation: ra‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

rage f or m (plural rages)

1. craze, fad, fashion.

• hype, modegril

• Pokémonrage

Inherited from Middle French rage, from Old French rage, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs.

• IPA^(key): /ʁaʒ/

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rage f (plural rages)

1. rage (fury, anger)
   • 1813, Les Attraits de la Morale, Ou la Vertu Parée de Tous Ses Charmes, et l'Art de rendre Heureux ceux qui nous entourent, page 179.

     “ […] , disoit St. Chrysostôme, […] Un homme en colère se punit le premier, en s'élevant et combattant contre lui-même, et s'enflammant de rage.”

     " […] , Saint Chrysostom says, […] An angered man punishes himself in the first place, rising and fighting against himself, and catching fire from rage."

2. rabies (disease)
   • 1935, Revista da produção animal, Instituto de Biologia Animal, page 47.

     Les chauves-souris Desmodus Rotundus infectéés naturellement transmettent la rage aux animaux.

     The naturally infected bats Desmodus rotundus transmit rabies to animals.

• enrager
• fou de rage
• faire rage
• rage de dents
• rage au volant
• vert de rage

• → German: Rage

• “rage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• gare, garé, géra

rage

1. inflection of ragen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

• raige (uncommon)

Inherited from Old French rage, raige, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs.

rage f (plural rages)

1. rage; ire; fury
2. rabies (disease)

• French: rage
  • → German: Rage

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (rage, supplement)

Inherited from Old French rage, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs (“anger, fury”).

rage f (plural rages)

1. (Jersey) rabies

• raige (uncommon)

From Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs.

• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈradʒə/
• (late) IPA^(key): /ˈraʒə/

rage f (oblique plural rages, nominative singular rage, nominative plural rages)

1. rage; ire; fury

From Vulgar Latin, Late Latin ragere. Compare French raire, réer; cf. also French railler, Italian ragliare.

• IPA^(key): [ˈra.d͡ʒe]

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a rage (third-person singular present rage, past participle not used) 3rd conj.

1. (of animals) to roar, howl, bellow

• răget

• urla, mugi, țipa, zbiera