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rage

Pronunciation: /ɹeɪd͡ʒ/

The English word “rage” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Violent uncontrolled anger.
  2. A current fashion or fad.
  3. An exciting and boisterous party.
  4. A subgenre of trap music originating in the United States in the 2020s, characterized by 808s and aggressive, distorted synths.
  5. Any vehement passion.

verb

  1. To act or speak in heightened anger.
  2. To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
  3. To party hard; to have a good time.
  4. To enrage.

Etymology

From Middle English rage, from Anglo-Norman rage, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs (“anger, fury”). Doublet of rabies. Displaced native Middle English wode, from Old English wōd ("madness, fury, rage"; compare Modern dialectal English wood (“mad, insane, furious, raging”)); and Middle English hotherte (“anger”), from Old English hātheort (“fury, anger, wrath, rage”).

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