verb
definition
To act or speak in heightened anger.
definition
(sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
definition
To enrage.
noun
definition
A display of rage.
adjective
definition
Volatile, very active or unpredictable.
example
A raging storm kept us indoors.
definition
(of a person) In a state of rage; in a state of extreme, often uncontrollable, anger.
Examples of raging in a Sentence
The battle had been raging for some time.
They drew up closer to the fire and felt thankful that they were safe from the raging storm.
Carmen stared at the raging torrent.
The air between them was as calm and peaceful as it was raging around them.
They turned him over to the secular arm for execution, had been raging between the Bohemians and Germans, was destined to cause Eugenius IV.
I have consulted the star of his nativity by my own rules, and find he will infallibly die upon the 29th of March next about eleven at night of a raging fever.
On the conclusion of the Peace of Oliva, which adjusted the long outstanding differences between Poland and Sweden, Czarniecki was transferred to the eastern frontier where the war with Muscovy was still raging.
In the dry season little more than brooks, they become raging torrents in the wet season.
A blizzard had been raging over the Christmas period, and large snow drifts built up.
This dramatic representation of the sufferings of Christ is not a survival of a medieval mystery or miracleplay, but took its rise from a vow made by the inhabitants in 1633, with the hope of staying a plague then raging.
At Ceneda in Venetia he died of a raging fever.
Many scholars connect the origin of the deity with the popular German and Swedish belief in a raging host (in Germany called das wiitende Heer or Wutes Heer, but in Sweden Odens Jagt), which passes through the forests on stormy nights.
Almost immediately afterwards he was inoculated for smallpox, which was raging in Princeton and vicinity, and, always feeble, he died of the inoculation on the 28th of March 1758.
A conflict was raging between the Hungarians and Rumanians, and history was required to furnish proofs of the greater antiquity of the Rumanians in Transylvania.
After a mission into Normandy, Carrier was sent, early in October 1793, to Nantes, under orders from the Convention to suppress the revolt which was raging there, by the most severe measures.
A raging mob surrounded the palace, clamouring for Godoys head; and the favorites life was only saved by Charles TVs announcement of his abdication in favor of Ferdinand (March 17).
She was hesitant, and he kissed her gently, not wanting to scare her despite his raging blood.
Elise was there, one hand aiming the laser at the raging man with the other hand planted on Lana's shoulder to prevent her from entering the potential line of fire.
He dropped to the ground, unable to stabilize the raging power within him or release it to destroy everything around him as he planned.
We're all trapped by a raging blizzard in an obscure little hotel on the French Riviera.
This event, a Winter Pairs match, was fished in a raging blizzard with a north wind to help cool things down.
It was the first recorded instance of cunning defeating brawn, but the battle has been raging ever since.
The raging bull will then expire in a china shop!
Next morning the poor man was smitten with a raging fever.
I had suffered with raging toothache for ten years.
You are a raging alcoholic, aren't you?
But it is seldom realized that the US and Britain have largely provoked the civil war now that is raging across central Iraq.
Even Frank seemed somewhat downcast â a bad sign, as heâs normally a cheery soul, despite the anger raging inside him.
A raging ectomorph will need more carbs than a carb-sensitive endomorph at the same protein level.
More critical was the fever from the viral encephalitis raging in her brain.
Another craft, and brighter, may stem the raging gale, Thy plea of sixty winters, old friend, can never fail.
The game of games according to some, backgammon turns perfectly well behaved men into raging gamesters.
It's almost enough to make a man forget his raging hangover.
Soon he's got his camcorder rolling, a raging hard-on in his p.. .
Within minutes the structure was engulfed in a raging inferno.
The drug, fur and timber Mafias are doing a raging business.
Care is also taken to show that, maybe, not all the German soldiers were raging psychopaths after all.
Like being charged full-on by a raging bull rhino.
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Bethany wrote... " I wish my smiles could still the raging tempest of the Saturday shoppers.
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About eight o'clock in the evening, a noise is heard, dis- tinct even above the raging of the hurricane.
The Clough Brook becomes a raging torrent in stormy weather.
They can't explain why the slow trickle away from final salary schemes has become a raging torrent.
How could such a hot button item go from raging controversy to nearly universal acceptance in such a short time?
When people think of raging wildfires, they worry about Bambi, not Kermit.
A letter was now awaiting despatch to Grouchy, and to it was added a postscript that the battle was raging with Wellington, that Billow's corps had been sighted by the emperor, and that the marshal was to hasten to the field and crush Billow.
In valleys where they have been rashly cut away, and the waters pour down the slopes unchecked, every tiny rivulet becomes a raging torrent, that carries off the grassy slopes and devastates the floor of the valley, covering the soil with gravel and debris.
The cannon were roaring, the balls were flying, the battle was raging.
The people for miles around were roused as though a fire were raging.