I.
noun
1 great anger
ADJECTIVE
▪ blind , pure
▪ blinding , boiling , burning , seething , uncontrollable
▪ homicidal ( esp. AmE ), murderous
▪ helpless , impotent
▪
She was burning with impotent ~.
▪ pent-up , suppressed
… OF RAGE
▪ bout , burst , fit
▪
He punched the wall in a fit of ~.
VERB + RAGE
▪ be full of , feel , fill sb with
▪
He was filled with ~.
▪ be beside yourself with , be boiling with , burn with , explode with , fume with , seethe with
▪
He glared at me, quite beside himself with ~.
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Her eyes were burning with ~.
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I was seething with ~.
▪ be contorted with , contort with
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‘How dare you!’ she said, her face contorted with ~.
▪ shake with , tremble with
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He was literally shaking with ~.
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Her voice was trembling with ~.
▪ be red with , be white with
▪ express , unleash , vent
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The people vented their ~ on government buildings.
▪ fuel
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His answer only seemed to fuel her ~.
▪ channel , control , master
▪
He managed to master his ~.
RAGE + VERB
▪ boil , boil over , boil up , burn
▪
Ron felt ~ boil up inside him.
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Her ~ boiled over as she burst into tears.
▪ build up , grow
▪
She felt the ~ building up inside her.
▪ consume sb , fill sb
▪
Blind ~ consumed him.
▪ erupt
▪
His ~ suddenly erupted.
▪ subside
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His ~ was beginning to subside.
PREPOSITION
▪ with ~
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She was speechless with ~.
▪ ~ at
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He was boiling with ~ at the unfairness of it all.
PHRASES
▪ a bellow of ~ , a cry of ~ , a roar of ~ , a scream of ~
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He gave a roar of ~ and punched me in the face.
▪ tears of ~
2 sudden display of great anger
ADJECTIVE
▪ blind , terrible , towering
▪ violent
▪
He was prone to violent ~s.
▪ jealous
▪ drunken
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She started hitting him in a drunken ~.
▪ air , road , etc.
▪
A motorist was assaulted in a road ~ attack.
VERB + RAGE
▪ be in , fly into , get in
▪
If something's too difficult she gets in a ~.
PREPOSITION
▪ in a ~
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She killed him in a ~ of despair.
▪ ~ about
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He was in a towering ~ about his lost watch.
▪ ~ at
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He flew into a ~ at the insult.
▪ ~ of
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He left in a ~ of humiliation.
II.
verb
1 show great anger
ADVERB
▪ inwardly
PREPOSITION
▪ about
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She was still raging about the treatment she had received.
▪ against
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I ~d inwardly against his injustice.
▪ at
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The team was left raging at the referee's decision.
2 continue with great force
ADVERB
▪ on , still
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The argument still ~s on.
PREPOSITION
▪ around
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Even the dogs were quiet while the heated quarrel ~d around them.
▪ through
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Fire ~d through the forest.
▪ within
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She tried to control the fury raging within her.
PHRASES
▪ ~ unabated
▪
The storm ~d unabated.
Rage is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ argument , ↑ battle , ↑ blizzard , ↑ conflict , ↑ controversy , ↑ debate , ↑ fighting , ↑ fire , ↑ row , ↑ storm , ↑ war