noun
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Violent uncontrolled anger.
definition
A current fashion or fad.
example
Miniskirts were all the rage back then.
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Any vehement passion.
verb
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To act or speak in heightened anger.
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(sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
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To enrage.
Examples of rage in a Sentence
His cold rage terrified her.
He flew into an abusive rage when he saw it.
His face twisted in rage as he reached for her again.
Sorrow and rage pierced him to the core.
Her face contorted with rage, and her eyes blackened.
Sarah could see the rage had left.
He released his pent-up rage and frustration and gave a bellowing war cry, trying hard to forget the warlord of Tiyan.
Low carb diets have been all the rage since Dr. Robert Atkins created and published his book on the Atkin's diet in 1972.
Corsets soon fell out of fashion, but body shaping was still all the rage.
Rage pounded through his body and he threw himself into the air, relishing the pain the shapeshifting brought.
Or it 's also pretty good in a road rage situation.
The muscles in Howard's jaws worked with rage.
Adrienne felt the rage tearing at her lungs, plucking at her nerves until she wanted to twist Julie's neck off.
Instead, she slumped against the wall, defeated by alcohol and impotent rage.
He threw her against the wall, blinded by pain and rage.
He glanced at Connor who barely contained his rage.
This is likely due to the fact that extreme low-rise pants are all the rage for more than five years now.
A famine had begun to rage.
If his questing had been unsuccessful, he appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat, and lay down to rest under the piazza of Covent Garden in warm weather, and, in cold weather, as near as he could get to the furnace of a glass house.
He hated the "morbid rage of debate" because he believed that men were never convinced by argument, but only by reflection, through reading or unprovocative conversation; and this belief guided him through life.
It roused one of the fits of wild rage to which he was not unfrequently liable; he burst out into ejaculations of wrath, and cursed the cowardly idle servants who suffered their master to be made the laughing-stock of a low-born priest.
He would have liked to think his ego had caused the rage, but he knew it was something much more complicated.
I whizzed round the corner, then felt a mixture of anger, rage, mixed with a little contrition.
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Anger and humiliation boiled up inside her and spilled over in a froth of rage.
Until now she would never have believed him capable of such rage.
Whilst they remain with her she is peculiarly vicious and aggressive, defending them with the greatest courage and energy, and when robbed of them is terrible in her rage; but she has been known to desert them when pressed, and even to eat them when starved.
The princess gave way to paroxysms of rage, in which she was guilty of acts of atrocious violence.
At best, there was impotent rage; at worst, a shrug of the shoulders.
He too is flouted, and in his rage tortures and slays her and her companions.
The debate over cloth versus disposable diapers continues to rage among manufacturers and parents.
Some adolescents may feel anger and want to rage at the world for letting death take a loved one.
Anabolic steroids have been associated with liver cancer, and they have psychological effects, such as contributing to rage attacks.
Yelling, screaming and trying to cut down the opposition with rage and energy can and have been effective and if nothing else can offer a subculture a theme, a message to hang on, a way to remember to keep fighting.
His rage simmered, yet he couldn't maintain the rage when faced with the sudden need to think.
When she reached the top of the stairs, Sarah panicked, seeing Jackson alone and in a fit of rage.
Mr James, the head of the mission, volunteered no satisfactory explanation, whereupon the king broke into uncontrollable rage, calling the emissaries cheats and liars.
Among the slain was Sir John de Graham, the bosom friend of Wallace, whose death, as Blind Harry tells, threw the hero into a frenzy of rage and grief.
In January 1791 a terrible plague began to rage in Cairo and elsewhere in Egypt, to which Ismail Bey and most of his family fell victims. Owing to the need for competent rulers IbrghIm and Murad Bey were sent for from Upper Egypt and resumed their dual government.
Theseus in a rage imprecated on his son the wrath of Poseidon.
The indignation excited by Leo X.'s sale of indulgences, the moral rage stirred in Northern hearts by papal abominations in Rome, were external causes which precipitated the schism between Teutonic and Latin Christianity.
The result threw Clay into paroxysms of rage, and he violently complained that his friends always used him as their candidate when he was sure to be defeated, and betrayed him when he or any one could have been elected.
Together with the rage for virginity went the institution of virgines subintroductae, or of spiritual wives; for it was often assumed that the.
There was a stormy interview at York Place; but Pole succeeded in mollifying the king's rage so far that Henry told him to put into writing his reasons against the divorce.
It is no longer necessary for serious criticism to refute the objections to its authenticity raised during the 19th century in certain quarters;12 as Macaulay said of the authenticity of Caesar's commentaries, "to doubt on that subject is the mere rage of scepticism."
The undoubted reference to Juvenal in Sidonius Apollinaris as the victim of the rage of an actor only proves that the original story from which all the varying versions of the lives are derived was generally believed before the middle of the 5th century of our era.
Every thought of the bastard who had my wife in his sick clutches nearly blinded me with the rage of a mad man.
He'd last felt the cold sense of impotent rage when he was a child and his family was slaughtered before his eyes.
He had nearly drained her of blood, but had been in such a rage he hadn't even paid attention.
I look at it from every angle in order to find out why my response is mild annoyance or absolute rage.