noun, verb
noun [U,C] a feeling of violent anger that is difficult to control:
His face was dark with rage. * to be shaking / trembling / speechless with rage * Sue stormed out of the room in a rage. * He flies into a rage if you even mention the subject.
IDIOMS
be all the rage (informal) to be very popular and fashionable:
Fax machines in cars are all the rage in California.
Part of speech: verb
1 ~ (at / against / about sb/sth) to show that you are very angry about sth or with sb, especially by shouting:
[V] He raged against the injustice of it all. * [Vspeech] 'That's unfair!' she raged.
2 [V] ~ (on) (of a storm, battle, argument, etc.) to continue in a violent way:
The riots raged for three days. * The blizzard was still raging outside.
3 [V] [usually +adv./prep.] (of an illness, a fire, etc.) to spread very quickly:
Forest fires were raging out of control. * A flu epidemic raged through Europe.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for rage is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is rage a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, rage is tagged as verb.
Does rage appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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