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RAGING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of the elements) as if showing violent anger
Example:
the raging sea
Synonyms:
angry; furious; raging; tempestuous; wild
Classified under:
Similar:
stormy ((especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Very severe
Example:
a raging toothache
Classified under:
Similar:
intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense
Example:
the river became a raging torrent
Synonyms:
hot; raging
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
violent (acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb rage
Context examples:
And the woman, leaning against the bunk, raging and impotent, watched herself weighed out in yellow dust and nuggets in the scales erected on the grub-box.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
A roaring, raging bully!
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was half an hour, or possibly three-quarters, before everything had been found, and Lorimer was already waiting in Jermyn Street with the inevitable baskets, whilst my uncle stood in the open door of his house, clad in his long fawn-coloured driving-coat, with no sign upon his calm pale face of the tumult of impatience which must, I was sure, be raging within.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was stepping leisurely across the court after breakfast, drinking the chill of the air with pleasure, when I was seized again with those indescribable sensations that heralded the change; and I had but the time to gain the shelter of my cabinet, before I was once again raging and freezing with the passions of Hyde.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Just as I was beginning to hope that the mate would come out calmer—for I heard him knocking away at something in the hold, and work is good for him—there came up the hatchway a sudden, startled scream, which made my blood run cold, and up on the deck he came as if shot from a gun—a raging madman, with his eyes rolling and his face convulsed with fear.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I see her yet in her raging passions, when we had driven her to extremities—spilt our tea, crumbled our bread and butter, tossed our books up to the ceiling, and played a charivari with the ruler and desk, the fender and fire-irons.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But when he came to the shore the wind was raging and the sea was tossed up and down in boiling waves, and the ships were in trouble, and rolled fearfully upon the tops of the billows.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The immense mountains and precipices that overhung me on every side, the sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the waterfalls around spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence—and I ceased to fear or to bend before any being less almighty than that which had created and ruled the elements, here displayed in their most terrific guise.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Bill spoke gravely and slowly, with no hint of the anger that was raging within.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I doubt that he has ever lived so swiftly and keenly before, and I honestly envy him, sometimes, when I see him raging at the summit of passion and sensibility.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
