raging
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Pronunciation
Verb
raging
- present participle and gerund of rage
- 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
- 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
raging (comparative more raging, superlative most raging)
- Volatile, very active or unpredictable.
- A raging storm kept us indoors.
- (of a person) In a state of rage; in a state of extreme, often uncontrollable, anger.
- a raging father shouting at us
- Extreme; intense.
- raging success
- a raging lesbian
- 2021 September 7, Charlie Berens ft. Taylor Calmus, Guys Trip: 20’s vs 30’s:
- Oh, and a minifridge full of Smirnoff. Yeah, you should totally come by. It's gonna be raging.
Translations
volatile, very unpredictable
in a state of rage
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Noun
raging (plural ragings)
- A display of rage.
- 1813, Patrick Brontë, The Rural Minstrel:
- To quell the ragings of his Father's ire, / And save a guilty world from quenchless fire!
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