Fear vs Rage - What's the difference?
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(lb) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
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, chapter=18 (lb) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
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(lb) Extreme veneration or awe, as toward a supreme being or deity.
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* Bible, (Psalms)
To cause fear to; to frighten.
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* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To feel fear about (something); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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, title= (lb) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
(lb) Regret.
(lb) To be anxious or solicitous for.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(lb) To suspect; to doubt.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
Violent uncontrolled anger.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
A current fashion or fad.
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(lb) Any vehement passion.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:in great rage of pain
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*:He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
*:convulsed with a rage of grief
(label) To act or speak in heightened anger.
(label) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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(label) To enrage.
In obsolete terms the difference between fear and rage
is that fear is to suspect; to doubt while rage is to enrage.As nouns the difference between fear and rage
is that fear is (uncountable: unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat while rage is violent uncontrolled anger.As verbs the difference between fear and rage
is that fear is to cause fear to; to frighten while rage is to act or speak in heightened anger.As an adjective fear
is able; capable; stout; strong; sound.fear
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) feer, fere, fer, from (etyl) . The verb is from (etyl) feren, from (etyl) , from the noun.Noun
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear .
citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
- I will put my fear in their hearts.
- I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Synonyms
* , terror, fright * , anxiety, apprehension * (extreme veneration) awe, reverence, veneration * See alsoDerived terms
* affear * fearful * fearless * fearmonger * fearnaught * fearsome * no fearVerb
(en verb)- Thenne the knyghte sayd to syre Gawayn / bynde thy wounde or thy blee chaunge / for thou bybledest al thy hors and thy fayre armes // For who someuer is hurte with this blade he shalle neuer be staunched of bledynge / Thenne ansuerd gawayn hit greueth me but lytyl / thy grete wordes shalle not feare me ne lasse my courage
- Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.
- I greatly fear my money is not safe.
- At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear —man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
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Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
- The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children, thereforeI fear you.
- Fear you not her courage?
Synonyms
* be afraid of, be frightened of, be scared of, be terrorised/terrorized be * (venerate) be in awe of, revere, venerateDerived terms
* fear not * God-fearing * never fearEtymology 2
From (etyl) fere, feore, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Statistics
*rage
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* fury * ireDerived terms
* pavement rage * road rage * roid rage * trolley rageVerb
(rag)- The madding wheels / Of brazen chariots raged ; dire was the noise.
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
- "The two women murmured over the spirit-lamp, plotting the eternal conspiracy of hush and clean bottles while the wind raged and gave a sudden wrench at the cheap fastenings.
- Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
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