rab-, rag-, rav-

1. To make someone furiously angry.
2. To make extremely angry; to infuriate.

1. Descriptive of extreme anger: The presentation of the plans to build a nightclub in the neighborhood has caused the enraged residents to demand that it not be done.

A feeling of intense anger; infuriation.

1. An act of extreme violence or viciousness.
2. An act grossly offensive to decency, morality, or good taste.
3. A deplorable insult.
4. Resentful anger aroused by a violent or offensive act.

1. To produce anger or resentment in: The worker's incompetence outraged the contractor.
2. Etymology: "violent behavior, excess, extravagance" from Old French outrage (12th century), earlier oltrage (11 century), from Vulgar Latin ultraticum, "excess"; from Latin ultra, "beyond".

1. Descriptive of a serious and often fatal disease that is caused by the bite of an infected animal: Efforts were being made to catch and to destroy the rabid dogs which were running around in the village in the summer.

There are those who call the rabid virus a form of hydrophobia.

2. A reference to a raging, extremely violent, irrational, or an unreasonable, or fanatical action: The defending soldiers had to withdraw from their position when the rabid attackers assaulted them.

The rabid behavior of the terrorists was marked by ferociousness and extreme violence.

3. Having a very fervent interest in or a zealous opinion about someone or something with extreme intensity: The group admitted that they were rabid fans of Michael Jackson.

Tony thought that both of the political opponents had a rabid lust for political power.

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1. The process of going to extreme lengths in expressing or pursuing a feeling, interest, or opinion.
2. An unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm.

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.

Furiousness; madness.

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.