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rage

noun

1 Keith's rage is caused by frustration:

fury, anger, wrath, outrage, indignation, passion, hot temper, spleen, resentment, pique, annoyance, vexation, exasperation, displeasure, bitterness, rancour, antagonism, hostility;

air rage;

literary ire, choler.

▷antonyms calmness.

2 Toby flew into a rage at this remark:

temper, fit of rage/fury/anger/temper, fit of bad/ill temper, towering rage, bad temper, pet, fit of pique, tantrum, fury, frenzy of rage/anger, rampage, paroxysm of rage/anger, passion, bad mood, mood;

Northern English, & Midlands English mard;

informal grump, strop, state;

North American, informal blowout, hissy fit;

British, informal , dated bate, wax, skid;

archaic paddywhack.

3 the current rage for portable computing:

craze, passion, fashion, taste, desire, craving, appetite, trend, vogue, fad, enthusiasm, love, obsession, compulsion, weakness, fondness, fixation, fetish, mania, fascination, preoccupation;

informal thing, yen;

rare cacoethes.

□ the rage (also all the rage)

for today's children, video and computer games are all the rage:

very popular, in fashion, in style, in vogue, (all) the fashion, the (latest) craze, the (latest) thing, (all) the vogue, in (great) demand, much sought-after, ultra-fashionable;

French le dernier cri;

informal in, the in thing, cool, big, trendy, hot, hip;

British, informal , dated all the go.

verb

1 she raged silently all the way back to the cottage:

be angry, be furious, be enraged, be incensed, be infuriated, seethe, be beside oneself, have a fit, boil, be boiling over, rant, rave, rant and rave, storm, fume, spit, breathe fire, burn;

informal be livid, be wild, jump up and down, froth/foam at the mouth, be steamed up, have steam coming out of one's ears;

British, informal do one's head/nut in, spit feathers.

2 he raged against the carving-up of the land:

protest strongly at, complain vociferously about, disagree violently with, oppose strongly, denounce;

fulminate, storm, inveigh, rail, kick, expostulate, make a fuss about;

informal kick up a fuss/stink about.

3 a tropical storm was raging:

be violent, be at its height, be turbulent, be tempestuous, be uncontrollable, thunder, rampage.

rage Oxford Dictionary of English