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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense;
- Example: "the fighting became hot and heavy"
- Example: "a hot engagement"
- Example: "a raging battle"
- Example: "the river became a raging torrent"
[syn: hot, raging]

2. very severe;
- Example: "a raging thirst"
- Example: "a raging toothache"

3. (of the elements) as if showing violent anger;
- Example: "angry clouds on the horizon"
- Example: "furious winds"
- Example: "the raging sea"
[syn: angry, furious, raging, tempestuous, wild]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Raging \Ra"ging\ (r[=a]"j[i^]ng),
   a. & n. from Rage, v. i. -- Ra"ging*ly, adv.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rage \Rage\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Raged (r[=a]jd); p. pr. & vb.
   n. Raging (r[=a]"j[i^]ng).] [OF. ragier. See Rage, n.]
   1. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be
      violently agitated with passion. "Whereat he inly raged."
      --Milton.
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            When one so great begins to rage, he is hunted
            Even to falling.                      --Shak.
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            Rage, rage against the dying of the light
            Do not go gentle into that good night. --Dylan
                                                  Thomas.
      [PJC]

   2. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or
      agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or
      winds.
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            Why do the heathen rage?              --Ps. ii. 1.
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            The madding wheels
            Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise.
                                                  --Milton.
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   3. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with
      destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in
      Cairo.
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   4. To toy or act wantonly; to sport. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   Syn: To storm; fret; chafe; fume.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

raging
    adj 1: characterized by violent and forceful activity or
           movement; very intense; "the fighting became hot and
           heavy"; "a hot engagement"; "a raging battle"; "the river
           became a raging torrent" [syn: hot, raging]
    2: very severe; "a raging thirst"; "a raging toothache"
    3: (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds
       on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" [syn:
       angry, furious, raging, tempestuous, wild]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

103 Moby Thesaurus words for "raging":
   Dionysiac, abandoned, amok, anarchic, angry, bacchic, bellowing,
   berserk, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, bullying,
   carried away, chaotic, cloudy, coarse, corybantic, cyclonic,
   delirious, demoniac, desperate, dirty, distracted, ecstatic,
   enraged, enraptured, feral, ferocious, fierce, fighting mad, foul,
   frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fulminating, fuming, furious, haggard,
   hectoring, hellish, hog-wild, hopping mad, howling, hysterical,
   in a rage, in a transport, in hysterics, infuriate, infuriated,
   insensate, intoxicated, like one possessed, mad, madding, maenadic,
   maniac, maniacal, mindless, noisy, orgasmic, orgastic, orgiastic,
   pandemoniac, possessed, rabid, rainy, ramping, ranting, ravening,
   raving, raving mad, ravished, rip-roaring, roaring, roaring mad,
   roistering, roisterous, rollicking, rough, running mad,
   running wild, savage, stark-raving mad, storming, stormy,
   swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing, tempestuous, tornadic,
   transported, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, typhonic,
   typhoonish, uncontrollable, uproarious, violent, wild, wild-eyed,
   wild-looking