raging

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪdʒɪŋ/
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    Rhymes: -eɪdʒɪŋ

Verb

raging

  1. present participle of rage
    • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, [], OCLC 16832619, 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)

  1. Volatile, very active or unpredictable.
  2. (of a person) In a state of rage; in a state of extreme, often uncontrollable, anger.

Translations

Noun

raging (plural ragings)

  1. A display of rage.
    • Patrick Brontë
      To quell the ragings of his Father's ire, / And save a guilty world from quenchless fire!

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