- [uncountable, countable] a feeling of violent anger that is difficult to control
- His face was dark with rage.
- to be shaking/trembling/speechless with rage
- in a rage Sue stormed out of the room in a rage.
- He flies into a rage if you even mention the subject.
Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsc1- ‘How dare you!’ she said, her voice choked with rage.
- Blind rage consumed him.
- He gave a roar of rage and punched me in the face.
- She glared at me, quite beside herself with rage.
- He left in a rage of humiliation.
- She managed to master her rage.
- He punched the wall in a fit of rage.
- She was boiling with rage at the unfairness of it all.
- He was in a towering rage about his lost watch.
- She was literally shaking with rage.
- His eyes were burning with rage.
- Her rage boiled over as she burst into tears.
- His voice was trembling with rage.
- My answer only seemed to fuel her rage.
- His rage suddenly erupted.
- Her rage was beginning to subside.
- I was seething with rage.
- If something's too difficult he gets in a rage.
- She smashed up his car in a drunken rage.
- He was burning with impotent rage.
- The people vented their rage on government buildings.
- She was prone to violent rages.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- blind
- terrible
- towering
- …
- be in
- fly into
- get in
- …
- in a rage
- rage about
- rage at
- …
- [uncountable] (in compounds) anger and violent behaviour caused by a particular situation
- a case of trolley rage in the supermarket
Word OriginMiddle English (also in the sense ‘madness’): from Old French rage (noun), rager (verb), from a variant of Latin rabies, from rabere ‘rave’.
Idioms
See rage in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee rage in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishbe all the rage
- (informal) to be very popular and fashionable
- It was 1711 and Italian opera was all the rage.
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