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Raging   /rˈeɪdʒɪŋ/   Listen
Raging

adjective
1.
Characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense.  Synonym: hot.  "A hot engagement" , "A raging battle" , "The river became a raging torrent"
2.
Very severe.  "A raging toothache"
3.
(of the elements) as if showing violent anger.  Synonyms: angry, furious, tempestuous, wild.  "Furious winds" , "The raging sea"


Rage

verb
(past & past part. raged; pres. part. raging)
1.
Behave violently, as if in state of a great anger.  Synonyms: ramp, storm.
2.
Be violent; as of fires and storms.
3.
Feel intense anger.



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"Raging" Quotes from Famous Books



... raging, I fear, is to result in consequences disastrous to our Government. That we shall drive Mexico to the wall there cannot be a doubt. We will avail ourselves of the conqueror's right in demanding indemnity for the expenses ...
— The Memories of Fifty Years • William H. Sparks
... into the stream. Almost before the canoe was caught by the current it swung quickly into another eddy, which carried it up a few yards close under the frowning cliffs. Here again the Indians paused, and gazed earnestly at the foaming torrent ahead, which, to an unpractised eye, might have seemed a raging flood, to enter which would ...
— The Walrus Hunters - A Romance of the Realms of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne
... bed having been filled in a few minutes six feet deep by a raging torrent, which was constantly being augmented by scores of furious rills, the upper portions of the mountain having been struck by what resembled a ...
— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn
... be mad—raging mad. She's always at me because things will tear my clothes. Horrid nuisance clothes are, aren't they? But Cattersby doesn't think so of course. ...
— Lalage's Lovers - 1911 • George A. Birmingham
... Janissaries and Sip[a]his in check till reinforcements came; and they killed fifteen of them. Their valour saved the fort. Four hours longer the struggle lasted, till neither party could deal another blow in the raging August sun; and the Turks at last retired with a loss of ...
— The Story of the Barbary Corsairs • Stanley Lane-Poole


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