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rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)

ragede (past)
raget (participle past)
rager (present)
ragede (past)
har raget (perfect present)
havde raget (past perfect)
rages (passive present)
ragedes (passive past)
ragende (participle present)
raget (participle past)
rag (imperative present)
rage (infinitive present)
have (auxiliary present)
ragen (gerund present)

From Old Norse raka, from Proto-Germanic *rakōną, cognate with Swedish raka, English rake. Related to *rekaną (“to pile”) and *rakjaną (“to stretch”).


rage

(transitive, usually negated) to concern, to be of (someone's) business

Men det rager mig, hvad folk siger .

1967, Christian Kampmann, Sammen, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:

“Det rager mig, hvad hun har lyst til.”

2007, Jonas T. Bengtsson, Submarino, Art People, →ISBN:

(transitive) to not concern, to not be any of (someone's) business

From Middle Low German rāken (“to hit, reach”), from Proto-West Germanic *rakōn. Probably related to the previous verb.


rage

From German ragen (“to jut, stick out”), from Proto-Germanic *hragōną, cognate with Old English oferhragan.


rage

Borrowed from Middle French rage, from Old French rage, from Late Latin rabia.


rage

Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.

1697, [William] Congreve, The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, page 39:

They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.

1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

Miniskirts were all the rage back then.

But the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action.

1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”, in Essays: First Series:

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.

1864, Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, The Eclectic Review (volume 7? volume 120? page 130)

That evening, Felix and Trish Homer invited me to the Sundancer for "a bit of a rage."

2013, Larry M. Edwards, Dare I Call It Murder?: A Memoir of Violent Loss, San Diego, C.A.: Wigeon Publishing, →ISBN, page 95:

(slang, US, Australia, New Zealand) An exciting and boisterous party.

And your true rights be termed a poet's rage

1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet XVII”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

in great rage of pain

1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

convulsed with a rage of grief

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 6, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:

He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.

1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:

en-noun

rage (countable and uncountable, plural rages)

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”).

gl

"madness, fury, rage"; compare Modern dialectal English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">wood</i> (“mad, insane, furious, raging”)


rage

When a Muslim politician held a 50th birthday party, he [Zaharan Hashim] raged about how Western infidel traditions were poisoning his hometown, Kattankudy.

2019 April 25, Hannah Beech, “Sri Lankan Accused of Leading Attacks Preached Slaughter. Many Dismissed Him.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-24:

(intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.

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.

1674, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 152:

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.

1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:

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.

1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, page 11:

Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.

2012 November 1, David M. Halbfinger, “New Jersey Continues to Cope With Hurricane Sandy”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-04:

Debate has raged over whether Glass and smartglasses like it have any viable real-world use cases for consumers, or are more interesting to businesses where workers need hands-free access to information.

2014 June 24, Samuel Gibbs, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-24:

As the storm raged, more than 85 million people—or more than one in every four Americans—were covered by some kind of blizzard or winter-storm advisory on Friday, according to weather.com.

2016 January 25, Marina Koren, “The East Coast Digs Out”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-24:

(sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.

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.

2012 August 2, Simon Reynolds, quoting Nathan Messer, “How rave music conquered America”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-13:

(slang, US, Australia, New Zealand) To party hard; to have a good time.

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

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 2, scene 1], page 28, column 2:

en-verb

rage (third-person singular simple present rages, present participle raging, simple past and past participle raged)

rages (present singular third-person)
raging (participle present)
raged (participle past)
raged (past)

From Middle English ragen, from Old French rager, ragier, from the noun (see above).
Displaced native Middle English weden (“to rage with anger”), from Old English wēdan (“to rage”), among other synonyms.


rage

“[…], disoit St. Chrysostôme, […] Un homme en colère se punit le premier, en s’élevant et combattant contre lui-même, et s’enflammant de rage.”

1813, Les Attraits de la Morale, Ou la Vertu Parée de Tous Ses Charmes, et l'Art de rendre Heureux ceux qui nous entourent, page 179:

" […] , Saint Chrysostom says, […] An angered man punishes himself in the first place, rising and fighting against himself, and catching fire from rage."

Les chauves-souris Desmodus Rotundus infectéés naturellement transmettent la rage aux animaux.

1935, Revista da produção animal, Instituto de Biologia Animal, page 47:

The naturally infected bats Desmodus rotundus transmit rabies to animals.

→ German: Rage

Inherited from Middle French rage, from Old French rage, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs.


rage

inflection of ragen:
first-person singular present

first/third-person singular subjunctive I

inflection of ragen:
singular imperative


rage

French: rage
→ German: Rage

Inherited from Old French rage, raige, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs.


rage

Inherited from Old French rage, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs (“anger, fury”).


rage

fro-noun

rage oblique singular, f (oblique plural rages, nominative singular rage, nominative plural rages)

rage oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
rages (oblique plural)
rage (nominative singular)
rages (nominative plural)

Bourguignon: raige, reige

Franc-Comtois: raidge

desctree

Middle French: rage, raige (uncommon)
French: rage
→ German: Rage

Gallo: raij

Lorrain: rèdje, rêge

Norman: rage

Picard: råjhe

Poitevin-Saintongeais: rajhe

Walloon: raedje

→ Middle English: rage

English: rage

Scots: rage

→ Sicilian: raggia

From Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs.


rage

ro-verb

a rage (third-person singular present rage, past participle not used) 3rd conj.

a rage (canonical)
rage (present singular third-person)
not used (participle past)
a rage (infinitive)
răgând (gerund)
ras (participle past)
rag (first-person indicative present singular)
ragi (indicative present second-person singular)
rage (indicative present singular third-person)
ragem (first-person indicative plural present)
rageți (indicative plural present second-person)
rag (indicative plural present third-person)
răgeam (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
răgeai (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
răgea (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
răgeam (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
răgeați (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
răgeau (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
răsei (first-person indicative perfect singular)
răseși (indicative perfect second-person singular)
rase (indicative perfect singular third-person)
raserăm (first-person indicative perfect plural)
raserăți (indicative perfect plural second-person)
raseră (indicative perfect plural third-person)
răsesem (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
răseseși (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
răsese (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
răseserăm (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
răseserăți (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
răseseră (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
să rag (first-person present singular subjunctive)
să ragi (present second-person singular subjunctive)
să ragă (present singular subjunctive third-person)
să ragem (first-person plural present subjunctive)
să rageți (plural present second-person subjunctive)
să ragă (plural present subjunctive third-person)
rage (imperative second-person singular)
rageți (imperative plural second-person)
nu rage (imperative negative second-person singular)
nu rageți (imperative negative plural second-person)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin ragĕre. Compare French raire, réer; cf. also French railler, Italian ragliare.