Definitions for the word "rage" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A violent or raging wind.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
To toy or act wantonly; to sport.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
To enrage.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
1 fierce or violent anger. 2 fit of this. 3 violent action of a natural force. v. (-ging) 1 be full of anger. 2 (often foll. By at, against) speak furiously or madly. 3 (of wind, battle, etc.) Be violent; be at its height. 4 (as raging adj.) Extreme, very painful (raging thirst; raging headache). all the rage very popular, fashionable. [latin *rabies]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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