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.

1. To speak or to act in violent anger: Hank always raged at the mindless bureaucracy that was running his city.
2. To exist with great violence or intensity: The snow storm is raging through the mountains and the valleys.
3. To spread or prevail forcefully: Historian wrote that the plague raged on for months.