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Forcible vs Raging - What's the difference?

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Forcible is a related term of raging.


As adjectives the difference between forcible and raging

is that forcible is able to be forced while raging is volatile, very active or unpredictable.

As a verb raging is

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As a noun raging is

a display of rage.

forcible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to be forced.
  • Having force.
  • * Bible, Job vi. 2
    • How forcible are right words!
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances, when broken.
  • * Hooker
    • That punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin.
  • Done by force. Oxford American Dictionaries (MacBook widget)
  • * 2008 , U.S. Department of Justice – Federal Bureau of Investigation, Crime in the United States
    • Forcible rape, as defined in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, is the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will. Attempts or assaults to commit rape by force or threat of force are also included; however, statutory rape (without force) and other sex offenses are excluded.
  • Having a powerful effect; telling

    • References

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    raging

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • *
  • *:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging . No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Volatile, very active or unpredictable.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A display of rage.
  • *
    • To quell the ragings of his Father's ire, / And save a guilty world from quenchless fire!