Rage

/ɹeɪd͡ʒ/ · noun

Meaning

Violent uncontrolled anger..

Definitions by Sense

1. Violent uncontrolled anger.
2. A current fashion or fad.
3. (slang, US, Australia, New Zealand) An exciting and boisterous party.
4. (music) A subgenre of trap music originating in the United States in the 2020s, characterized by 808s and aggressive, distorted synths.
5. (obsolete) Any vehement passion.
6. (intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.
7. (sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
8. (slang, US, Australia, New Zealand) To party hard; to have a good time.

Example Sentences

Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.

They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.

[…] rage is not only impotent by definition, it is the mode in which impotence becomes active in its last stage of final despair.

Miniskirts were all the rage back then.

This rage for boulevardizing has destroyed the quaint, queer, pestilential streets of old Paris, through which it was our pleasure to wander many years since.

But the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action.

Here and there were certain unmistakable derniers cris, some of them undoubtedly destined - had the world pursued its expected course - to become the rage of tomorrow; others, I would say, a dead loss from their very inception.

‘She has big breasts’, Chuck said. ‘Who? Patty? Oh yes.’ Hentman nodded. ‘Well, it’s that operation they give in Hollywood and New York. It’s more the rage now than the dilation, and she’s had that done, too.’

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• rages
• raging
• raged

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