Rabid

/ˈɹæbɪd/ · adjective

Meaning

Affected with rabies..

Definitions by Sense

1. Affected with rabies.
2. Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia.
3. (by extension) Furious; raging; extremely violent.
4. (figurative) Very extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous.
5. A human or animal infected with rabies.
6. Someone who is fanatical in opinion.

Example Sentences

a rabid dog or fox

a rabid virus

It seems a very likely agreement that the Maestre’s activity against Cabra, at and after Ciudad Real, should be balanced by the service of Aguilar’s brutal underlings in the Rebellion at Fuente Ovejuna." In any event, there were “algunos caballeros (sic) cordobeses a devocién de . . . Rodrigo Girén,” who in 1473 had already proved themselves only too eager for the most rabid violence.

Brutal compulsion was the necessary accompaniment of the large-scale organization and the extensive order introduced by kingship. Herodotus’ history is full of revolting descriptions of the rabid violence of kings, such as the tale he told of Cambyses.

Their rage appeared to dissipate into bewilderment as they sensed for the first time exactly where they were. They peered about, and rather than drawing their rabid strength from the memorials surrounding them, they were confused. In their disfigured faces, Suzanna sensed the stunning realization that they too were now among the honored dead. It came to them as an epiphany.

This letter never reached its destination; the watchmaker, Mare Biron, who had offered to convey it to England, was arrested whilst attempting to pass the royal lines, and was immediately hanged. La Rochelle, however, still held out. “Their rabid fury,” says the cardinal, ‘‘gave them new strength, or rather the avenging wrath of God caused them to be supplied therewith in extraordinary measure by his evil spirit in order to prolong their woes; they were already almost at the end thereof and misery found upon them no more substance whereon it could feed and support itself; they were skeletons, empty shadows, breathing corpses rather than living men.”

He met her struggles with rabid force, shaking her and growling.

a rabid socialist

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• rabider
• rabidest
• rabids

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