Word Finder - raged

definition

To act or speak in heightened anger.

definition

(sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.

definition

To enrage.

The storm raged on around them and finally began to abate.

Once again, war raged in Europe and around the world and left sixty million people dead.

The battle still raged in the distance, the colors duller against the morning sky.

Fire still raged at one end of the orchard, filling the air above the trees with black smoke.

A controversy raged in Germany.

The battle raged mainly around the re-charter of the Bank of the United States.

Battles raged atop the walls, on the narrow stairways, at the base of the walls.

In 1656 one of the most destructive of all recorded epidemics in Europe raged in Naples; it is said to have carried off 300,000 persons in the space of five months.

At that time, he was reaping the fruits of war as World War II raged on.

In 1522 Douglas was stricken by the plague which raged in London, and died at the house of his friend Lord Dacre.

The activity of the Inquisition was redoubled, and persecution raged throughout the Netherlands.

Thereafter it suffered greatly from the civil wars which raged in Abyssinia, and was more than once sacked.

For two years, indeed, a struggle raged between Baldwin I.

For centuries a bitter feud raged between the Kapitel-Stadt and the Upper Town, until these rivals were forced to join hands against the Turks.

He visited all the neighbouring parishes where the contagion raged, distributing money, providing accommodation for the sick, and punishing those, especially the clergy, who were remiss in discharging their duties.

In 1849-1850, and again in 1852, the disease raged very severely and spread southward.

The application to government for aid, however, proved the occasion of a " Voluntary controversy," which raged with great fierceness for many years and has never completely subsided.

In the vital matter of national defence no common understanding had been arrived at, and during the conflicts which had raged round this question, the two chambers had come into frequent collision and paralysed the action of the government.

The controversy between the old and the new schools raged so fiercely, and the victory has remained so obviously in the hands of the latter, that it is difficult, especially for a foreigner, to hold the balance perfectly even.

Additional decisions were necessitated by the violent disputes which raged within the Franciscan order as to the observance of the rules of St Francis of Assisi, and by the multitude of subordinate questions arising from this.

The Peasants' War also raged within the see in 1525 and 1526, and was only quelled with the aid of the Swabian League.

The contest, which raged from the 23rd to the morning of the 26th of June, was without doubt the bloodiest and most resolute the streets of Paris have ever seen, and the general did not hesitate to inflict the severest punishment on the rebels.

On the east is the Johanniskirche, round which raged the last conflict in the battle of 1813, when it suffered severely from cannon shot.

In and around Edessa the theological strife raged hotly.'

Ethel raged on for sever­al minutes, listing in graphic detail exactly what she'd do to her partner—now ex-partner—until Dean managed to get her to agree to sign a complaint so the police could begin a quiet search.

The party was then in a narrow gorge between huge icebergs, over which the storm raged with fearful fury.

When about half-way, he was surrounded by the hordes of the Khakan, and the battle raged with terrible slaughter.

Fortunately that night as the old verger told me, a " tempest " raged.

And as the battle raged between towels and seeds for space in the airing cupboard, my mum's patience never once wavered.

But persecution raged, especially against the pastors.

But the constant feuds which raged between the regent and her second son, Shams Addaula, compelled the scholar to quit the place, and of ter a brief sojourn at Kazwin, he passed southwards to Hamadan, where that prince had established himself.

In Queensland, where the earliest factory legislation dates from 1896, keen parliamentary conflict raged round the pro posal in 1907 to introduce the special boards system for fixing wages.

Presently at a feast of Anahite Gregory refused to assist his sovereign in offering pagan sacrifice, and his parentage being now revealed, was thrown into a deep pit at Artashat, where he languished for fourteen years, during which persecution raged in Armenia.

The greatest mortality was caused by virulent malarial fever, which raged during the autumn months of 'coo and the early months of 1901.

The battle between Guelph and Ghibelline raged with unintermitting fury.

As it was, a struggle raged between Roger and Manuel during the whole progress of the Crusade, which greatly contributed towards its failure, preventing, as it did, any assistance from the Eastern empire.

Yet by adroit use of his powers of diplomacy, and by playing upon the dissensions which raged between the descendants of Saladin's brother (Malik-al-Adil), he was able, without striking a blow, to conclude a treaty with the sultan of Egypt which gave him all that Richard I.

In part, again, a commercial war raged between Venice and Genoa, which attracted into its orbit all the various feuds and animosities of the Levant (12J7).

The conflagration of 1671, already mentioned, raged for fifteen days, and only the church, a part of the palace, and two towers escaped uninjured.

In 1892 the cholera raged within its walls, carried off 850o of its inhabitants, and caused considerable losses to its commerce and industry; but the visitation was not without its salutary fruits, for an improved drainage system, better hospital accommodation, and a purer water-supply have since combined to make it one of the healthiest commercial cities of Europe.

For a hundred years after the Elizabethan settlement the battle raged round the compulsory use of the surplice and square cap, both being objected to by the extreme Calvinists or Puritans.

Popular passion confused the issues, and raged as violently against the substitution of the surplice for the Geneva gown in the pulpit as against the revival of the "mass vestments."

Harbour works were begun in 1857, piers and jetties were constructed, dredgers imported, and controversy raged over the various schemes for harbour improvement.

This persecution raged most fiercely towards the end of what is generally called " The Long War," which began in 1593, and lasted till 1606.

Syria, around which much controversy has raged during the past thirty years.

The " Kulturkampf " raged in Baden, as in the rest of Germany; and here as elsewhere the government encouraged the formation of Old Catholic communities.

The feud which raged round the doctrine of the Lord's Supper had already broken out before the first diet of Spires, and had aroused great and immediate excitement.

A furious cannonade raged, and the Anglo-Dutch line withdrew slightly to gain more cover from the ridge.

This raged in the Eastern Church for more than a century (726-843), and only sank to rest when the worship of images was unconditionally conceded.

A battle of pamphlets raged for some time; Droste was not re-installed but was obliged to accept a coadjutor.