rage

1 a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury, madness]

2 a state of extreme anger; "she fell into a rage and refused to answer"

3 something that is desired intensely; "his rage for fame destroyed him" [syn: passion]

4 violent state of the elements; "the sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks"

5 an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season" [syn: fad, craze, furor, furore, cult]

1 behave violently, as if in state of a great anger [syn: ramp, storm]

2 be violent; as of fires and storms

3 feel intense anger; "Rage against the dying of the light!"

see Rage

English

Pronunciation

• IPA:/reɪdʒ/

• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Etymology

raige (French: rage), from rabia, from rabies "anger, fury".

Noun

1. Violent uncontrolled anger.
   • "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.
2. A current fashion or fad.
   • ". . . all the rage."

Synonyms

• fury
• ire

Translations

Verb

1. : To act or speak in uncontrolled anger.
2. : To move with great violence, as a storm etc.

Translations

Anagrams

• gear

French

Pronunciation

Noun

fr-noun f

1. rage
2. rabies

Rage or RAGE may refer to:

• The Iliad
• Rage (emotion), an extreme, energized usually explosive state of anger
• Rage (comics), a fictional character from Marvel Comics
• Rage (novel), by Stephen King published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman
• Rage (video game), a first-person shooter video game in development by id Software
• rage (TV program), an Australian music video show
• Rage (card game), a collectible card game based on the roleplaying game Werewolf: The Apocalypse
• Rage, a commercial variant of the card game Oh Hell
• Ezekiel Rage, an overzealous antagonist from the television series The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
• RAGE (receptor), the biological receptor for advanced glycation endproducts
• Rage Software Limited, the defunct game developer
• ATI Rage, a series of graphics chipsets by ATI
• RAGE, Rockstar Advanced Game Engine, a game engine developed by Rockstar
• Rage (Queer as Folk), a fictional superhero comic book in Queer as Folk
• Rage (character), a character/dancer from the Dance Dance Revolution series of video games
• Rage (Transformers), a fictional character

Diseases:

• Rage, the French language word for rabies
• Rage, the fictional genetically-engineered virus in the film 28 Days Later and the sequel, 28 Weeks Later

In music:

• Rage (band), a German heavy metal band
• Rage Against the Machine, an American metal band prominent in the 1990s
• Rage (guitarist), the current guitarist for the heavy metal band Venom
• The Lady of Rage, an American rapper
• Kyle Gass of Tenacious D is sometimes known as Rage or Rage-Kage

Films:

• Rage (1966 film)
• Rage (1972 film)
• Rage (1999 film)

See also

• The Rage

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