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Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.

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  1. n. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.
  2. n. Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.
  3. n. A violent or raging wind.
  4. n. The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.
  5. n. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
  6. n. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds.
  7. n. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.
  8. n. To toy or act wantonly; to sport.
  9. v. t. To enrage.
  10. n. a feeling of intense anger
  11. n. a state of extreme anger
  12. n. something that is desired intensely