Raging

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rage \Rage\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Raged} (r[=a]jd); p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Raging} (r[=a]"j[i^]ng).] [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.
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              When one so great begins to rage, he is hunted
              Even to falling.                      --Shak.
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              Rage, rage against the dying of the light
              Do not go gentle into that good night. --Dylan
                                                    Thomas.
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     2. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or
        agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or
        winds.
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              Why do the heathen rage?              --Ps. ii. 1.
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              The madding wheels
              Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise.
                                                    --Milton.
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     3. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with
        destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in
        Cairo.
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     4. To toy or act wantonly; to sport. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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     Syn: To storm; fret; chafe; fume.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Raging \Ra"ging\ (r[=a]"j[i^]ng),
     a. & n. from {Rage}, v. i. -- {Ra"ging*ly}, adv.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  raging
       adj 1: characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement;
              very intense; "the fighting became hot and heavy"; "a
              hot engagement"; "a raging battle"; "the river became
              a raging torrent" [syn: {hot}]
       2: very severe; "a raging thirst"; "a raging toothache"
       3: (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds
          on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" [syn: {angry},
           {furious}, {tempestuous}, {wild}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  103 Moby Thesaurus words for "raging":
     Dionysiac, abandoned, amok, anarchic, angry, bacchic, bellowing,
     berserk, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, bullying,
     carried away, chaotic, cloudy, coarse, corybantic, cyclonic,
     delirious, demoniac, desperate, dirty, distracted, ecstatic,
     enraged, enraptured, feral, ferocious, fierce, fighting mad, foul,
     frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fulminating, fuming, furious, haggard,
     hectoring, hellish, hog-wild, hopping mad, howling, hysterical,
     in a rage, in a transport, in hysterics, infuriate, infuriated,
     insensate, intoxicated, like one possessed, mad, madding, maenadic,
     maniac, maniacal, mindless, noisy, orgasmic, orgastic, orgiastic,
     pandemoniac, possessed, rabid, rainy, ramping, ranting, ravening,
     raving, raving mad, ravished, rip-roaring, roaring, roaring mad,
     roistering, roisterous, rollicking, rough, running mad,
     running wild, savage, stark-raving mad, storming, stormy,
     swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing, tempestuous, tornadic,
     transported, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, typhonic,
     typhoonish, uncontrollable, uproarious, violent, wild, wild-eyed,
     wild-looking