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# rage

«rage» in Mova's school dictionary: **very strong anger that is hard to control** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (rage, rages — usually uncountable); verb (rage, rages, raged, raging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Rage is very strong anger that is hard to control. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rage/#m1)

2) To rage means to be very angry and shout. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rage/#m2)

3) To rage also means to go on with great force, like a storm, fire or illness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rage/#m3)

4) «All the rage» means very fashionable for a while. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rage/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In stories rage shows a character losing control: «in a rage», «flew into a rage». In well-being lessons children learn ways to calm rage: breathe slowly, count to ten, walk away, talk about feelings. In geography and science: storms, fires and seas rage. Phrases: in a rage, fly into a rage, road rage, raging storm, all the rage.

### examples

- He flew into a rage when his tower was knocked down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rage/#x1)
- The storm raged all night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rage/#x2)
- When you feel rage, take deep breaths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rage/#x3)
- The forest fire raged for days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rage/#x4)
- These trainers are all the rage at school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rage/#x5)
- The giant roared with rage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rage/#x6)
- The grand duke flew into a rage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rage/#x7)

### note

Mostly uncountable: «full of rage». Past: raged, -ing: raging (drop the e). Rage is stronger than «anger» or «annoyance». «Raging» can describe very strong things: a raging fever, a raging river.

### In the corpora

- [Rage-quitting feels good for one second and costs much more afterwards.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/5/)
- [Rage-quitting means leaving a match in anger before it ends.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/27/)
- [Walking away also means walking away from your own rage.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/19/)
- [He's raging (Scots for furious), then starts doing chores to earn a new one.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything/19/)
- [But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against Me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.618/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.