Ragest vs Rarest - What's the difference?
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(rage)
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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(label) To enrage.
(rare)
(cooking, particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense).
* Dryden
Very uncommon; scarce.
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, title= (label) Thin; of low density.
(US) To rear, rise up, start backwards.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 328:
(US) To rear, bring up, raise.
(obsolete) early
* Chapman
As a verb ragest
is (rage).As an adjective rarest is
(rare).ragest
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----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)
Anagrams
* ----rarest
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* * * * ----rare
English
Etymology 1
From a dialectal variant of rear, from (etyl) rere, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (UK)Adjective
(en-adj)- New-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care / Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare .
Synonyms
* (cooked very lightly) sanguinaryAntonyms
* (cooked very lightly) well doneDerived terms
* medium-rareEtymology 2
From (etyl) rare, from (etyl) rare, .Adjective
(er)David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
Synonyms
* (very uncommon) scarce, selcouth, seld, seldsome, selly, geason, uncommonAntonyms
* (very uncommon) commonDerived terms
* rare bird * rare earth mineralEtymology 3
Variant of rear .Verb
(rar)- Frank pretended to rare back as if bedazzled, shielding his eyes with a forearm.
Usage notes
* (rft-sense) Principal current, non-literary use is of the present participle raring' with a verb in "'''raring''' to". The principal verb in that construction is ''go''. Thus, '''''raring''' to go'' ("eager (to start something)") is the expression in which '''''rare is most often encountered as a verb.Etymology 4
Compare rather, rath.Adjective
(en adjective)- Rude mechanicals that rare and late / Work in the market place.