OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12820

rage

/ɹeɪd͡ʒ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
furia • furor • ira • rabia
Violent uncontrolled anger.
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…
[…] rage is not only impotent by definition, it is the mode in which impotence becomes active in its last stage of final despair.
furor
A current fashion or fad.
But the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action.
Miniskirts were all the rage back then.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 12821

rage

/ɹeɪd͡ʒ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
encolerizarse • rabiar
To act or speak in heightened anger.
When a Muslim politician held a 50th birthday party, he [Zaharan Hashim] raged about how Western infidel traditions were poisoning his hometown, Kattankudy.
causar estragos • propagarse
To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drownin…
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.