Verb

(rag)

(label) To act or speak in heightened anger.

(label) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

The madding wheels / Of brazen chariots raged ; dire was the noise.

*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)

, chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1

"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.

* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

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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(label) To enrage.

(Shakespeare)

Verb

(en verb)

* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI

*:I don't know if you have ever thought what a rare thing in the absence of man and in a temperate climate, flames must be. The sun's heat is rarely strong enough to burn even when focussed by dewdrops, as is sometimes the case in more tropical districts. Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives rise to widespread fire. Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation, but this again rarely results in flames. Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.

(obsolete) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.

(Holinshed)

(Palsgrave)