raging
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
raging
adj 1: 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" [syn: {hot}, {raging}]
2: very severe; "a raging thirst"; "a raging toothache"
3: (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds
on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" [syn:
{angry}, {furious}, {raging}, {tempestuous}, {wild}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rage \Rage\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Raged} (r[=a]jd); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Raging} (r[=a]"j[i^]ng).] [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.
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When one so great begins to rage, he is hunted
Even to falling. --Shak.
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Do not go gentle into that good night. --Dylan
Thomas.
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2. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or
agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or
winds.
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Why do the heathen rage? --Ps. ii. 1.
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The madding wheels
Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise.
--Milton.
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3. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with
destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in
Cairo.
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4. To toy or act wantonly; to sport. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Syn: To storm; fret; chafe; fume.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "raging":
Dionysiac, abandoned, amok, anarchic, angry, bacchic, bellowing,
berserk, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, bullying,
carried away, chaotic, cloudy, coarse, corybantic, cyclonic,
delirious, demoniac, desperate, dirty, distracted, ecstatic,
enraged, enraptured, feral, ferocious, fierce, fighting mad, foul,
frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fulminating, fuming, furious, haggard,
hectoring, hellish, hog-wild, hopping mad, howling, hysterical,
in a rage, in a transport, in hysterics, infuriate, infuriated,
insensate, intoxicated, like one possessed, mad, madding, maenadic,
maniac, maniacal, mindless, noisy, orgasmic, orgastic, orgiastic,
pandemoniac, possessed, rabid, rainy, ramping, ranting, ravening,
raving, raving mad, ravished, rip-roaring, roaring, roaring mad,
roistering, roisterous, rollicking, rough, running mad,
running wild, savage, stark-raving mad, storming, stormy,
swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing, tempestuous, tornadic,
transported, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, typhonic,
typhoonish, uncontrollable, uproarious, violent, wild, wild-eyed,
wild-looking
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