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    Rage , n. [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.

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      He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
      Macaulay.

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      Convulsed with a rage of grief.
      Hawthorne.

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

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

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    4. The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.
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      Syn. -- Anger; vehemence; excitement; passion; fury. See Anger.
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    Rage, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Raged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Raging .] [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.” 
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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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    Rage, v. t. To enrage. [Obs.]
    Shak.

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