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rage

noun
/ɹeɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Etymology tree Classical Latin rabiō Proto-Italic *-jēs Classical Latin -iēs Classical Latin rabiēs Late Latin rabia Anglo-Norman ragebor. Middle English rage English rage 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”).

  1. derived from rabiēs — “anger, fury”
  2. derived from rabia
  3. derived from rage
  4. inherited from rage

Definitions

  1. Violent uncontrolled anger.

    • Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.
    • […] rage is not only impotent by definition, it is the mode in which impotence becomes active in its last stage of final despair.

  2. A current fashion or fad.

    • Miniskirts were all the rage back then.
    • But the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action.
    • This rage for boulevardizing has destroyed the quaint, queer, pestilential streets of old Paris, through which it was our pleasure to wander many years since.

  3. An exciting and boisterous party.

    • That evening, Felix and Trish Homer invited me to the Sundancer for "a bit of a rage."
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A subgenre of trap music originating in the United States in the 2020s, characterized by…

      A subgenre of trap music originating in the United States in the 2020s, characterized by 808s and aggressive, distorted synths.

      • Tripp At Knight feels like a Carti homage, but while it certainly gestures towards the rage sound, Trippie’s imitation of Carti is largely rooted in 2019 rather than 2021.
      • The list of rappers affiliated with rage has exploded in the subsequent 18 months, and several seem poised to break out in 2023.

    2. Any vehement passion.

      • And your true rights be termed a poet's rage
      • in great rage of pain
      • convulsed with a rage of grief

    3. 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.

    4. To move with great violence, as a storm etc.

      • Horrible diſcord, and the madding Wheeles / Of brazen Chariots rag'd; dire was the noiſe / Of conflict; over head the diſmal hiſs / Of fiery Darts in flaming volies flew, / And flying vaulted either Hoſt with fire.
      • 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, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
      • 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.

    5. To party hard

      To party hard; to have a good time.

      • These events are all about raging hard, getting as fucked up as you can. Not necessarily even about dancing, just being a face in this giant extravaganza.

    6. To enrage.

      • The King is come, deale mildly with his youth, / For young hot Colts, being rag'd, do rage the more.

The neighborhood

Derived

air rage, all the rage, arage, black rage defense, blind rage, computer rage, dage, day of rage, desk rage, fly into a rage, frustrage, outrage, paradoxical rage reaction, pavement rage, rageaholic, ragebait, rage boner, rage clean, rage comic, rage farm, rageful, rage game, rageholic, rageless, ragelike, rageous, ragepost, ragequit, rage quit, rage quitter, rager, rage room, ragesome, rage syndrome, ragetweet, ragey, road rage, 'roid rage, roid rage, trolley rage · +6 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at rage. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at rage. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at rage

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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