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- [reyj]
- /reɪdʒ/
- /reɪdʒ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [reyj]
- /reɪdʒ/
Definitions of rage word
- noun rage angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage. 1
- noun rage a fit of violent anger: Her rages usually don't last too long. 1
- noun rage fury or violence of wind, waves, fire, disease, etc. 1
- noun rage violence of feeling, desire, or appetite: the rage of thirst. 1
- noun rage a violent desire or passion. 1
- noun rage ardor; fervor; enthusiasm: poetic rage. 1
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Origin of rage
First appearance:
before 1250 One of the 11% oldest English words
1250-1300; (noun) Middle English < Old French < Late Latin rabia, Latin rabiēs madness, rage, derivative of rabere to rage; (v.) ragen < Old French ragier, derivative of rage (noun)
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Parts of speech for Rage
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
rage popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
rage usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for rage
noun rage
- anger — Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
- arbitrariness — subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely upon one's discretion: an arbitrary decision.
- bandwagon — You can refer to an activity or movement that has suddenly become fashionable or popular as a bandwagon.
- blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
verb rage
- animadvert — to comment with strong criticism (upon); make censorious remarks (about)
- bloviate — to talk at length, esp in an insubstantial but inflated manner
- blow up — If someone blows something up or if it blows up, it is destroyed by an explosion.
- boil — When a hot liquid boils or when you boil it, bubbles appear in it and it starts to change into steam or vapour.
- boil over — When a liquid that is being heated boils over, it rises and flows over the edge of the container.
adj rage
- bent out of shape — very angry, upset, or agitated
- browned off — If you say that you are browned off, you mean that you are annoyed and depressed.
- corybantic — frenzied; agitated; unrestrained.
- faddy — Having characteristics of a fad.
- hacked — to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
Antonyms for rage
noun rage
- mirage — an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
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