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Rabid vs Wode - What's the difference?

rabid | wode |

As adjectives the difference between rabid and wode

is that rabid is affected with rabies while wode is (archaic) mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.

As a noun wode is

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rabid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Affected with rabies.
    • a rabid dog or fox
  • Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia.
    • a rabid virus
  • Furious; raging; extremely violent.
  • very extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; comparable to one with rabies.
    • a rabid socialist
    rabid Green Bay Packers fans

    Quotations

    * The rabid flight, Of winds that ruin ships. -- Chapman

    Anagrams

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    wode

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * wood

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (archaic) Mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
  • * a''. 1588 , (Jasper Heywood), quoted in James Petite Andews, ''The History of Great Britain , published 1806
    • My hair stode up, I waxed wode , my synewes all did shake / And, as the fury had me vext, my teeth began to quake.

    Etymology 2

    See woad

    Noun

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