rage

/reɪdʒ/

/reɪdʒ/

Other forms: raging; raged; rages

Rage is a really intense anger. Some frustrated drivers let their emotions boil over into road rage when another car cuts them off, for example.

If you're full of rage, you're full of anger — powerful, extreme, sometimes even violent anger. Rage can also be a verb: you might rage against something you hate or as the poet Dylan Thomas pleaded, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Things that rage are out of control, like a raging, roaring fire or a wild storm. Another meaning involves the latest, greatest trend — you'd say it's "all the rage."

Definitions of rage

1. noun

   a feeling of intense anger
   “his face turned red with rage”

   synonyms: fury, madness

   types:

   wrath

   intense anger (usually on an epic scale)

   lividity

   a state of fury so great the face becomes discolored

   type of:

   anger, bile, choler, ire

   anger; irritability
2. noun

   a state of extreme anger
   “she fell into a rage and refused to answer”

   synonyms: apoplexy

   type of:

   anger, angriness

   the state of being angry
3. noun

   violent state of the elements
   “the sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks”

   type of:

   violence

   a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.
4. verb

   behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
   synonyms: ramp, storm

   type of:

   act, behave, do

   behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
5. verb

   feel intense anger
   “Rage against the dying of the light!”

   types:

   blow a fuse, blow one's stack, blow up, combust, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, fly off the handle, go ballistic, have a fit, have kittens, hit the ceiling, hit the roof, lose one's temper, throw a fit

   get very angry and fly into a rage

   foam at the mouth, froth at the mouth

   be in a state of uncontrolled anger
6. verb

   be violent; as of fires and storms
   type of:

   be

   have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
7. noun

   an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
   “it was all the rage that season”

   synonyms: craze, cult, fad, furor, furore

   type of:

   fashion

   the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior
8. noun

   something that is desired intensely
   “his rage for fame destroyed him”

   synonyms: passion

   type of:

   desire

   something that is desired