transcription, транскрипция: [ reɪdʒ ]
( rages, raging, raged)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Rage is strong anger that is difficult to control.
He was red-cheeked with rage...
I flew into a rage...
= fury
N-VAR
2.
You say that something powerful or unpleasant rages when it continues with great force or violence.
Train services were halted as the fire raged for more than four hours...
The war rages on and the time has come to take sides.
VERB : V , V on
3.
If you rage about something, you speak or think very angrily about it.
Monroe was on the phone, raging about her mistreatment by the brothers...
Inside, Frannie was raging...
‘I can’t see it’s any of your business,’ he raged.
VERB : V about/against/at n , V , V with quote
4.
You can refer to the strong anger that someone feels in a particular situation as a particular rage , especially when this results in violent or aggressive behaviour.
Cabin crews are reporting up to nine cases of air rage a week.
N-UNCOUNT : n N
see also road rage
5.
When something is popular and fashionable, you can say that it is the rage or all the rage . ( INFORMAL )
The 1950s look is all the rage at the moment.
N-SING : the N
6.
see also raging