raging

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪd͡ʒɪŋ/

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  Rhymes: -eɪd͡ʒɪŋ

raging

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

raging (comparative more raging, superlative most raging)

1. Volatile, very active or unpredictable.

   A raging storm kept us indoors.

2. (of a person) In a state of rage; in a state of extreme, often uncontrollable, anger.

   raging dad

3. Extreme; intense.

   raging success

   raging lesbian

raging (plural ragings)

1. A display of rage.
   • 1813, Patrick Brontë, The Rural Minstrel:

     To quell the ragings of his Father's ire, / And save a guilty world from quenchless fire!

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