rage
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Is rage a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (slang, US, Australia, New Zealand) An exciting and boisterous party.Examples: "That evening, Felix and Trish Homer invited me to the Sundancer for "a bit of a rage.""Synonyms: ragerAustraliaNew-ZealandUScountableslanguncountable
2. (music) A subgenre of trap music originating in the United States in the 2020s, characterized by 808s and aggressive, distorted synths.Examples: "Tripp At Knight feels like a Carti homage, but while it certainly gestures towards the rage sound, Trippie’s imitation of Carti is largely rooted in 2019 rather than 2021."; "The list of rappers affiliated with rage has exploded in the subsequent 18 months, and several seem poised to break out in 2023."; "OK produced the bulk of Jump Out, and the pair succeeded in crafting a sound that, while sonically linked to the forbearers of the underground — maximalist drums in the spirit of so-called “rage” rap along with melodic flourishes of early Playboi Carti — the Charlotte, North Carolina born producer manages to tread new terrain, constructing a sonic identity that feels deliriously right now."countableuncountable
3. (obsolete) Any vehement passion.Examples: "And your true rights be termed a poet's rage"; "in great rage of pain"; "convulsed with a rage of grief"countableobsoleteuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.Examples: "When a Muslim politician held a 50th birthday party, he [Zaharan Hashim] raged about how Western infidel traditions were poisoning his hometown, Kattankudy."intransitive
2. (sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.Examples: "Horrible diſcord, and the madding Wheeles / Of brazen Chariots rag'd; dire was the noiſe / Of conflict; over head the diſmal hiſs / Of fiery Darts in flaming volies flew, / And flying vaulted either Hoſt with fire."; "The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume."; "The two women murmured over the spirit-lamp, plotting the eternal conspiracy of hush and clean bottles while the wind raged and gave a sudden wrench at the cheap fastenings."Synonyms: ravefigurativelysometimes
3. (slang, US, Australia, New Zealand) To party hard; to have a good time.Examples: "These events are all about raging hard, getting as fucked up as you can. Not necessarily even about dancing, just being a face in this giant extravaganza."AustraliaNew-ZealandUSslang
4. (obsolete, rare) To enrage.Examples: "The King is come, deale mildly with his youth, / For young hot Colts, being rag'd, do rage the more."obsoleterare
Definition source: Wiktionary