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单词 rage
释义 rage
I. \ˈrāj\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Late Latin rabia, from Latin rabies rage, madness, from rabere to rave, be mad; akin to Sanskrit rabhas violence, impetuosity
1.
 a. : violent and uncontrolled anger often accompanied with raving : fury
  < overcome with a mighty rage >
  < out of this helplessness and rage comes the will to endure — Leon Edel >
 b. : a fit of violent wrath
  < fell into an appalling rage and started out to destroy everything in sight — T.R.Ybarra >
 c. archaic : insanity
  < mopings which presage the loss of reason and conclude in rage — John Dryden >
2.
 a. : violent action of the elements (as wind or sea)
  < river hurled itself in thundering lacy-white rage against jagged boulders — F.V.W.Mason >
 b. : a furious storm : tempest
  < a rage on the bar kept seaside dwellers indoors >
3.
 a. : extreme force of feeling : passion, frenzy
  < a rage for order >
  < a rage for power >
  < a rage to live >
  < convulsed with a rage of grief — Nathaniel Hawthorne >
  < the old man is in a rage of excitement — Clemence Dane >
 b. : a state or feeling of exalted fervor (as of enthusiasm or inspiration)
  < chill penury repressed their noble rage — Thomas Gray >
  < that sacred rage … we associate with the great novels on social issues — New Republic >
4. : something eagerly and usually excessively sought after or pursued : craze, vogue
 < the current rage for … how-to-do-it material — W.I.Nichols >
— often used in the phrase all the rage
 < a period when cures and taking the waters were all the rage — Peter Forster >
Synonyms: see anger, fashion
II. intransitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English ragen, from Old French ragier, from rage anger
1. : to be in a rage : be furious : rave
 < a person who everlastingly rages — H.A.Overstreet >
— usually used with over, at, or against
 < raging over the waste of her small capital — American Guide Series: Tennessee >
 < raged at him for his carelessness >
 < rage at the imposed weight — Arnold Bennett >
2.
 a. : to become stirred up violently : be in a tumult
  < the storm still raging outside — W.H.Hudson †1922 >
  < the wind might rage unbridled — C.G.D.Roberts >
 b. : to move wildly or turbulently : go on a rampage
  < sent his brother raging after women — G.K.Chesterton >
  < the winds of doctrine … rage through the land — V.L.Parrington >
  < rivers rage through fertile bottom lands — American Guide Series: North Carolina >
3.
 a. : to be intense or overwhelming
 b. : to prevail uncontrollably : spread with destructive effect
  < yellow fever was raging — W.P.Webb >
  < for two weeks … the controversy raged — A.L.Funk >
  < the fallacies … which rage in the world — H.L.Mencken >
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