rage
pronunciation
How to pronounce rage in British English:
UK [reɪdʒ]
How to pronounce rage in American English:
US [reɪdʒ]
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- Noun:
- a feeling of intense anger
- a state of extreme anger
- something that is desired intensely
- violent state of the elements
- an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
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- Verb:
- behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
- be violent; as of fires and storms
- feel intense anger
Word Origin
- rage
- rage: [13] Rage is a close relative of rabies. It comes via Old French rage from Vulgar Latin *rabia, an alteration of Latin rabiēs ‘madness, frenzy, fury’ (from which English gets rabies). (French rage still means ‘rabies’ as well as ‘anger’.)=> rabies
- rage (n.)
- c. 1300, "madness, insanity; fit of frenzy; anger, wrath; fierceness in battle; violence of storm, fire, etc.," from Old French rage, raige "spirit, passion, rage, fury, madness" (11c.), from Medieval Latin rabia, from Latin rabies "madness, rage, fury," related to rabere "be mad, rave" (compare rabies, which originally had this sense), from PIE *rebh- "violent, impetuous" (cognates: Old English rabbian "to rage"). Similarly, Welsh (cynddaredd) and Breton (kounnar) words for "rage, fury" originally meant "hydrophobia" and are compounds based on the word for "dog" (Welsh ci, plural cwn; Breton ki). In 15c.-16c. it also could mean "rabies." The rage "fashion, vogue" dates from 1785.
- rage (v.)
- mid-13c., "to play, romp," from rage (n.). Meanings "be furious; speak passionately; go mad" first recorded c. 1300. Of things from 1530s. Related: Raged; raging.
Example
- 1. That 's spawned an islandwide case of road rage .
- 2. The reaction would be gibbering , uncomprehending rage .
- 3. She 'd done nothing to me . My rage belonged to her husband .
- 4. Controversies still rage about wartime poland .
- 5. Yet collaboration is all the rage .