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rage

See also: Rage and ragé

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Etymology edit

From Middle English, borrowed through Anglo-Norman rage, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs (“anger, fury”). Doublet of rabies. Displaced native Old English hātheortnes (“rage”) and Old English wēdan (“to rage”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɹeɪd͡ʒ/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Noun edit

rage (countable and uncountable, plural rages)

  1. Violent uncontrolled anger.
    • 1697, [William] Congreve, The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, page 39:
      Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.
    • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
      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.
  2. A current fashion or fad.
    Miniskirts were all the rage back then.
    • 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”, in Essays: First Series:
      But the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action.
    • 1864, Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, The Eclectic Review (volume 7? volume 120? page 130)
      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.
  3. (slang, US, Australia, New Zealand) An exciting and boisterous party.
    • 2013, Larry M. Edwards, Dare I Call It Murder?: A Memoir of Violent Loss, San Diego, C.A.: Wigeon Publishing, →ISBN, page 95:
      That evening, Felix and Trish Homer invited me to the Sundancer for "a bit of a rage."
  4. (obsolete) Any vehement passion.

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rage (third-person singular simple present rages, present participle raging, simple past and past participle raged)

  1. (intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.
  2. (sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
    • 1674, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 152:
      Horrible diſcord, and the madding Wheeles / Of brazen Chariots rag'd; dire was the noiſe / Of conflict; over head the diſmal hiſs / Of fiery Darts in flaming volies flew, / And flying vaulted either Hoſt with fire.
    • 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
      The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. […] Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
    • 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, page 11:
      The two women murmured over the spirit-lamp, plotting the eternal conspiracy of hush and clean bottles while the wind raged and gave a sudden wrench at the cheap fastenings.
    • 2012 November 1, David M. Halbfinger, “New Jersey Continues to Cope With Hurricane Sandy”, in The New York Times‎[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-04:
      Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
    • 2014 June 24, Samuel Gibbs, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian‎[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-24:
      Debate has raged over whether Glass and smartglasses like it have any viable real-world use cases for consumers, or are more interesting to businesses where workers need hands-free access to information.
    • 2016 January 25, Marina Koren, “The East Coast Digs Out”, in The Atlantic‎[4], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-24:
      As the storm raged, more than 85 million people—or more than one in every four Americans—were covered by some kind of blizzard or winter-storm advisory on Friday, according to weather.com.
  3. (slang, US, Australia, New Zealand) To party hard; to have a good time.
  4. (obsolete, rare) To enrage.

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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /raːɣə/, [ˈʁɑːʊ]

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Norse raka, from Proto-Germanic *rakōną, cognate with Swedish raka, English rake. Related to *rekaną (“to pile”) and *rakjaną (“to stretch”).

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rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)

  1. to scrape
  2. (dated) to shave
    Synonym: barbere
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Inflection of rage
present past
simple rager ragede
perfect har raget havde raget
passive rages ragedes
participle ragende raget
imperative rag —
infinitive rage —
auxiliary verb have —
gerund ragen —
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Etymology 2 edit

From Middle Low German rāken (“to hit, reach”), from Proto-West Germanic *rakōn. Probably related to the previous verb.

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rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)

  1. (transitive, usually negated) to concern, to be of (someone's) business
  2. (transitive) to not concern, to not be any of (someone's) business
Conjugation edit
Inflection of rage
present past
simple rager ragede
perfect har raget havde raget
passive rages ragedes
participle ragende raget
imperative rag —
infinitive rage —
auxiliary verb have —
gerund ragen —

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Etymology 3 edit

From German ragen (“to jut, stick out”), from Proto-Germanic *hragōną, cognate with Old English oferhragan.

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rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)

  1. to jut, stick out, stand out
Conjugation edit
Inflection of rage
present past
simple rager ragede
perfect har raget havde raget
passive rages ragedes
participle ragende raget
imperative rag —
infinitive rage —
auxiliary verb have —
gerund ragen —
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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Middle French rage, from Old French rage, from Late Latin rabia.

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rage f or m (plural rages)

  1. craze, fad, fashion.

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Etymology edit

Inherited from Middle French rage, from Old French rage, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs.

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rage f (plural rages)

  1. rage (fury, anger)
    • 1813, Les Attraits de la Morale, Ou la Vertu Parée de Tous Ses Charmes, et l'Art de rendre Heureux ceux qui nous entourent, page 179:
      “ […] , disoit St. Chrysostôme, […] Un homme en colère se punit le premier, en s’élevant et combattant contre lui-même, et s’enflammant de rage.”
      " […] , Saint Chrysostom says, […] An angered man punishes himself in the first place, rising and fighting against himself, and catching fire from rage."
  2. rabies (disease)
    • 1935, Revista da produção animal, Instituto de Biologia Animal, page 47:
      Les chauves-souris Desmodus Rotundus infectéés naturellement transmettent la rage aux animaux.
      The naturally infected bats Desmodus rotundus transmit rabies to animals.

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  • → German: Rage

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rage

  1. inflection of ragen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

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Etymology edit

Inherited from Old French rage, raige, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs.

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rage f (plural rages)

  1. rage; ire; fury
  2. rabies (disease)

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (rage, supplement)

Norman edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old French rage, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs (“anger, fury”).

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rage f (plural rages)

  1. (Jersey) rabies

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From Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs.

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  • (classical) IPA(key): /ˈradʒə/
  • (late) IPA(key): /ˈraʒə/

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rage oblique singular, f (oblique plural rages, nominative singular rage, nominative plural rages)

  1. rage; ire; fury

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Etymology edit

Inherited from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin ragĕre. Compare French raire, réer; cf. also French railler, Italian ragliare.

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a rage (third-person singular present rage, past participle not used) 3rd conj.

  1. (of animals) to roar, howl, bellow

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    conjugation of rage (third conjugation, past participle in -s)
infinitive a rage
gerund răgând
past participle ras
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present rag ragi rage ragem rageți rag
imperfect răgeam răgeai răgea răgeam răgeați răgeau
simple perfect răsei răseși rase raserăm raserăți raseră
pluperfect răsesem răseseși răsese răseserăm răseserăți răseseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să rag să ragi să ragă să ragem să rageți să ragă
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative rage rageți
negative nu rage nu rageți

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