Rage
(Rage) n. [F., fr. L. rabies, fr. rabere to rave; cf. Skr. rabh to seize, rabhas violence. Cf. Rabid,
Rabies, Rave.]
1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the
will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon.
He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
Macaulay.
Convulsed with a rage of grief.
Hawthorne. 2. Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.
Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.
Milton. 3. A violent or raging wind. [Obs.] Chaucer.
4. The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive
passion; as, to be all the rage.
Syn. — Anger; vehemence; excitement; passion; fury. See Anger.
Rage
(Rage), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Raged (rajd); p. pr. & vb. n. Raging ] [OF. ragier. See Rage, n.]
1. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion. "Whereat he
inly raged." Milton.
When one so great begins to rage, he is hunted
Even to falling.
Shak. 2. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging
sea or winds.
Why do the heathen rage?
Ps. ii. 1.
The madding wheels
Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise.
Milton. 3. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.
4. To toy or act wantonly; to sport. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Syn. — To storm; fret; chafe; fume.
Rage
(Rage), v. t. To enrage. [Obs.] Shak.
Rageful
(Rage"ful) a. Full of rage; expressing rage. [Obs.] "Rageful eyes." Sir P. Sidney.
Ragery
(Ra"ger*y) n. Wantonness. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Ragged
(Rag"ged) a. [From Rag, n.]
1. Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.
2. Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks.
3. Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant. [R.] "A ragged noise of mirth." Herbert.
4. Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.
