rage

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Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

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Definition

  1. noun a feeling of intense anger
  2. noun a state of extreme anger
  3. noun something that is desired intensely

Etymology

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”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

fury, madness

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