rab-, rag-, rav- +

(Latin: madness, to be mad; to rave, to be furious)


enrage
1. To make someone furiously angry.
2. To put into a rage; to infuriate.
3. To make extremely angry; to put into a rage; to infuriate.
enraged
1. Marked by extreme anger.
2. Having caused someone to become very angry: "Presentation of plans to build a new nightclub in the neighborhood have enraged local residents."
enragement
A feeling of intense anger; infuriation.
enraging
1. Putting someone into a rage.
2. Making violently angry.
rabid
1. Very enthusiastic about an idea, belief, or activity; often to the point of being blind to other opinions, beliefs, or preferences.
2. Feeling or showing an emotion or need with extreme intensity: "He had a rabid lust for political power."
3. Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; as, a rabid terrorist.
4. Marked by ferociousness or violence.
5. Furious; raging; extremely violent.
6. In veterinary medicine infected with rabies.
7. Affected with the distemper called rabies; mad; as, a rabid dog or fox.
8. Of or pertaining to rabies, or what is sometimes called, hydrophobia; as, a rabid virus.
rabidity
1. Going to extreme lengths in expressing or pursuing a feeling, interest, or opinion.
2. Unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm.
rabidly
1. Irrationally extreme in opinion or practice: "He has always been a rabid baseball fan."
2. Furiously or ragingly; violently intense.
3. Affected with or pertaining to rabies; a reference to madness.
rabidness
Furiousness; madness.
rage
1. Sudden and extreme anger.
2. An outburst of strong anger: "She flew into a rage when someone criticized her sculpture."
3. Something that is the object of a short-lived fascination, fashion, or enthusiasm shared by many people.
4. Extreme or unrelenting intensity.
5. A strong and sometimes overpowering desire or enthusiasm.
raged
1. Spoken or acted in violent anger: "He always raged at the mindless bureaucracy."
2. Moved with great violence or intensity: "The snow storm raged through the mountains and the valleys."
3. Spread or prevailed forcefully: "We read that the plague raged for months."
rageful
1. Full of rage.
2. Expressing rage.
raging
1. Out of control or very angry.
2. Done or happening with great force or intensity.
3. Very severe and causing great pain or distress; such as, a raging toothache.
4. Considerable or very good or great: "The stage drama was a raging success."
rave
1. To give praise in a very enthusiastic way: "All of the critics raved about her new novel."
2. To speak or to say something in a loud, irrational, or incoherent way.
3. An expression of very enthusiastic praise: "People simply had to rave about winning the basketball tournament."
raving
1. Speak wildly, irrationally, or incoherently.
2. Roaring; raging: "The storm is still ravilng along the coast."
3. Speaking or writing with wild enthusiasm: "Critics are still raving about the new novel."
4. Uttering or expressing in a frenzied manner.

Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "anger, angry; rage, wrath, fury; rave": fur-, furi-; ira-; lysso-; mania-.


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