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raging

verbadjectivenouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈɹeɪd͡ʒɪŋ//

Volatile, very active or unpredictable.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of ragepresent participle and gerund of rage

    Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

adjective

  1. 1

    Volatile, very active or unpredictable.

    A raging storm kept us indoors.

  2. 2

    In a state of rage; in a state of extreme, often uncontrollable, anger.

    a raging father shouting at us

  3. 3

    Extreme; intense.

    raging success

    a raging lesbian

    Oh, and a minifridge full of Smirnoff. Yeah, you should totally come by. It's gonna be raging.

noun

  1. 1

    A display of rage.

    To quell the ragings of his Father's ire, / And save a guilty world from quenchless fire!

Forms

plural
ragings
comparative
more raging
superlative
most raging
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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