RAGING

angry, furious, raging, tempestuous, wild

(adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; “angry clouds on the horizon”; “furious winds”; “the raging sea”

raging

(adjective) very severe; “a raging thirst”; “a raging toothache”

hot, raging

(adjective) characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense; “the fighting became hot and heavy”; “a hot engagement”; “a raging battle”; “the river became a raging torrent”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

raging

present participle of rage

Adjective

raging (comparative more raging, superlative most raging)

Volatile, very active or unpredictable.

(of a person) In a state of rage; in a state of extreme, often uncontrollable, anger.

Noun

raging (plural ragings)

A display of rage.

Anagrams

• Riggan

Source: Wiktionary


Ra"ging,

Definition: a. & n. from Rage, v. i.

– Ra"*ging*ly, adv.

RAGE

Rage, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. rabies, fr. rabere to rave; cf. Skr. rabh to seize, rabhas violence. Cf. Rabid, Rabies, Rave.]

1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief. Hawthorne.

2. Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury. torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. Milton.

3. A violent or raging wind. [Obs.] Chaucer.

4. The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.

Syn.

– Anger; vehemence; excitement; passion; fury. See Anger.

Rage, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Raged; p. pr. & vb. n. Raging.] Etym: [OF. ragier. See Rage, n.]

1. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion. "Whereat he inly raged." Milton. When one so great begins to rage, he a hunted Even to falling. Shak.

2. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds. Why do the heathen rage Ps. ii. 1. The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise. Milton.

3. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.

4. To toy or act wantonly; to sport. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Syn.

– To storm; fret; chafe; fume.

Rage, v. t.

Definition: To enrage. [Obs.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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