Rage vs X - What's the difference?
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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
* (1800-1859)
*: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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* 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):
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(label) To enrage.
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
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As a verb rage
is .As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.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.
- (Shakespeare)