As a noun, rage is a very strong feeling of anger that can be hard to control. As a verb, it means to feel or act with violent anger, or for something like a storm or war to happen with great force.
It comes from Old French “rage,” from Latin “rabies,” meaning “madness, fury,” which also gives us the disease name “rabies.” The sense of wild, uncontrolled emotion has stayed central across its history.
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